Pauridia canaliculata (Garside) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 14-39 cm tall. Corm somewhat depressed ovoid, 9-20 mm diam., covered with finely reticulate dark brown fibrous tunics; fibres dense, free from basal disc, terminating in a ring of short bristles around neck; roots arising from corm base. Cataphylls membranous, up to 15 mm long. Leaves 2-5, sheathing at base up to 6 cm, spreading to recurved, linear, 190-350 x 1.5-3.5 mm, attenuate distally, often flexuous in distal1/3, becoming more marked on drying, canaliculate, often inrolled towards apex, somewhat coriaceous, margin sometimes finely toothed. Inflorescences 1 in flower at a time, 1-flowered, shorter to slightly longer than leaves; scape 50-165 x 1-2 mm, subterete, reddish green; bract 1, incompletely sheathing pedicel to just below tip, linear-lanceolate, involute, 55-110 mm long, bluntly keeled, tapering to a linear, recurved tip, green, somewhat coriaceous. Flower pedicellate, stellate, orange or rarely yellowish, with a deep brownish purple, glaucous, non-iridescent centre, backed with pale green and striped reddish on midveins and edges, unscented; pedicels suberect, deflexing after anthesis then becoming erect in fruit, 80-150 x 1-2 mm, somewhat compressed, reddish green or green; tepals 6, narrowly elliptic, 24-49 mm long, adaxial surface minutely papillate proximally, outer 5-11 mm wide, prominently mucronate, inner 4-10 mm wide. Stamens 6, suberect to spreading, subequal; filaments inserted on ovary rim, tapering upwards from a broad base, 1-2 mm long, much shorter than anthers, brownish maroon; anthers linear, latrorse, 6-12 x 1 mm, orange-yellow, basal lobes up to 0.5 mm long; pollen yellow. Ovary narrowly obconical, 11-30 x 2.5-4.0 mm, 3-locular; style ca. 1.5 mm long, brownish maroon; stigma branches erect, linear, 4.5-11.0 x 1 mm, ca. shorter than to equalling stamens, orange-yellow, densely papillose. Capsule narrowly obconical, leathery, up to 30 x 5-7 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds cylindrical-arcuate or J-shaped, 0.99 x 0.49 mm; testa shiny black, rugose, covered by transverse to reticulate bands separated by deep pits, outer periclinal cell walls elongated, convex. Flowering period: mid-August-September(-early October).