Hessea cinnamomea T.Durand & Schinz

Bulbs solitary or occasionally clumped, deep-seated, depressed-globose, 20-30 mm diam., with lightly fibrous and dark-brown to tan outer tunics; neck long and slender, extending up to 150 mm. Leaves absent or occasionally incipient at anthesis, 1-2, suberect to spreading, narrowly lorate, hemiterete, 100-200 x 1.0-2.5 mm, dark shiny green, reddened basally, glabrous, sheathed by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll. Inflorescence spreading, more or less secund, 30-130 mm across; scape erecto-patent, 40-80 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., wine-red proximally otherwise dark green, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 15-35 x 3-4 mm; bracteoles up to 5 mm long. Flowers 5-27, somewhat secund, widely funnel-shaped, glistening white to pink with a deep pink to claret or brownish red centre, becoming light brown with age, heavily scented like spice; pedicels more or less unilaterally curved below the flowers, 20-65 mm long, green. Tepals adnate basally to the staminal tube for up to 1.0(-2.5) mm, spreading above, oblong-lanceolate, 7.5-3.0 x 3-5 mm, with crisped edges; apices of the outer whorl conspicuously mucronulate. Stamens shorter than the tepals by 3-6 mm, spreading abruptly from the base; filaments shortly connate at the base forming a tube up to 0.5 mm abBve the perigone throat, stout proximally, otherwise subulate; anthers centrifixed, 2.5 mm long and dark wine-red before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with up to 2(-4) ovules per locule. Style up to 9 mm long, stout proximally, triquetrous, with nectar collecting in a well around the base. Seeds 2.5-3.0 mm diam. Flowering is stimulated by fire.