Pauridia aemulans (Nel) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 3-12 cm tall. Corm depressed-ovoid, 5-11 mm diam., loosely covered with brown fibrous tunics; fibres firm, more or less pectinate and attached to flattened, dry disc below, otherwise reticulate, ending in short acuminate tips; roots slender, arising from lower third of corm. Cataphylls membranous, up to 25 mm long, colourless or pale brown. Leaves 2-6, shortly sheathing proximally, more or less outwardly arched, linear, 25-85 x 0.5-4.0 mm, canaliculate, pale green, margin smooth. Inflorescences 1 or rarely 2 in flower at a time, 1-flowered, shorter or equal to leaves, rarely longer; scape 13-35 x ca. 0.5 mm, subterete, pale green; bract 1, hardly clasping pedicel at base, linear, (1.5-)4.5-7.5 x ca. 0.2 mm. Flower pedicellate, stellate, yellow, mostly backed with pale reddish brown to green in outer whorl, unscented; pedicel suberect, terete, 12-20 x ca. 0.2 mm, flexed to one side when fruiting, pale green; tepals 6, often slightly reflexed when fully open, oblong-elliptical, 5-10 mm long, outer 2.0-3.5 mm wide, mucronate, inner 1.5-2.5 mm. Stamens 6, suberect, outer reaching up to base of inner anthers, yellow; filaments inserted on ovary rim, outer 1.5-3.0 mm long, inner 3.0-4.5 mm long, longer than anthers; anthers oblong, latrorse, 1.5-2.0 mm long before opening, connective thickened on ventral surface, lobes extended above and below connective, sometimes very shortly so; pollen yellow. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 2.5-4.0 x 1.5 mm, 3-locular; style 1.5-2.0 mm long; stigma branches erect, oblong to lanceolate, 3-4 x 0.5-1.0 mm long, somewhat shorter or nearly equalling inner stamens, yellow, densely papillose, basal lobes up to 0.75 mm long, closely cohering and outspread from branch clefts. Capsule narrowly obconical, ca. 5.0 x 2 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds somewhat globose, ca. 0.35-0.40 mm diam., brownish, finely colliculate. Flowering period: (end of April-)May-June(-early August).