Namaquanula bruce-bayeri D.Müll.-doblies & U.Müll.-doblies

Bulb solitary or occasionally forming bulblets, ovoidal, 15-40 mm diam., covered by several thick dry tan-coloured, cartilaginous tunics; neck up to 80 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, (1-)2-3(-4), suberect to spreading, lorate, up to 150 x 2.5-5.0 mm, firm, fleshy, compressed-terete in cross section, glabrous, occasionally somewhat sticky, shiny green, curved or twisted distally; subterranean cataphyll and prophyll lacking. Inflorescence laxly or densely hemispherical, 25-60 mm across; scape 25-70 mm long, 1.5-3.0 mm diam., more or less sticky, green to wine red, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 13-32 x 3-6 mm; bracteoles up to 3 mm long. Flowers 6-17, spreading, funnel-shaped, pale pink and somewhat hyaline, turning light brown with age, scentless; pedicels straight, 19-22 mm long, trigonous, green to pink, ultimately wine-red. Tepals adnate to the stamens and extended into a distinct tube 0.5-1.8 mm long, slightly spreading above, oblanceolate, 4.5-6.5 x 1-1.5 mm. Stamens well exserted, proximally adpressed to the style for up to 2 mm, otherwise slightly spreading; filaments 7-11 mm long, basally connate forming a tube up to 0.5 mm above the perigone throat, otherwise free, papillose adaxially for approximately 2 mm above the throat and raised to form a short inwardly-curved hook, smooth and subulate above; anthers dorsifixed, about 1.5 mm long before opening, dark maroon; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary usually with 1 ovule per locule. Style up to 15 mm long, equalling the stamens, slender throughout, with nectar collecting in a pool around the base; stigma very shortly trifid. Seeds about 2.5 mm diam. Flowering late February until the end of March.