Pauridia etesionamibensis (U.Müll.-doblies, Mark.Ackermann, Weigend & D.Müll.-doblies) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 7-15 cm tall. Corm more or less ovoid, 7-14 mm diam., covered with several fibrous tunics; fibres finely herringbone-patterned, brown, free from disc-like remnants of old corms, truncate distally; roots growing from corm proximally. Cataphyll membranous, up to 22 mm long. Leaves 3-6, sometimes sheathing for up to 25 mm from base, spreading to pendant, linear to narrowly lorate, often curved, 35-310 x 2-9 mm, attenuate proximally, tapering evenly upwards, more or less carinate, pale green, usually flaccid, margin smooth. Inflorescences usually 2 in flower at a time, 2(3)-flowered, shorter than leaves; scape up to 70 x ca. 1.5 mm, somewhat compressed, green; bracts 2, clasping pedicels in lower half, lanceolate, 10-26 x 3-5 mm, keeled, pale green, thin-textured, margin translucent. Flowers pedicellate, stellate, white or pale pink, with an orange-yellow eye or dark pink central ring, backed with green and sometimes tinged with wine-red in outer whorl; pedicels spreading, 15-70 x ca. 1 mm, green to pinkish; tepals 6, elliptical, 6-10(-17) mm long, outer 3.2-5.0 mm wide, minutely mucronate, inner 2.0-3.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, suberect, outer slightly shorter than inner, yellow; filaments inserted on raised ovary dome away from tepals, outer 1.5-3.5 mm long, inner 2-3 mm long, equalling or exceeding anthers; anthers oblong, latrorse, 1.7-3.6(4.2) x 0.7 mm, basal lobes up to 0.5 mm long; pollen yellow. Ovary broadly obconical, 2-4 x 2-3 mm, 3-locular, dome convex, minutely papillate; style yellow, column 1.0-2.0 mm long; stigma branches suberect, oblong-sagittate, 1.7-4.5 x 0.3-0.5 mm, slightly shorter than stamens, papillose, often with 3 channeled basal lobes up to 0.5 mm long, sometimes spreading between filaments. Capsules broadly obconical, ca. 3-4 x 3.5 mm, dehiscence circumscissile, placental ridges remaining contiguous centrally. Seeds ovoid, 0.6-0.7 x 0.5 mm; testa shiny, black. Flowering period: (June-)August-September(-November), flowers remain open day and night.