Pauridia linearis (Andrews) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 10-40 cm tall. Corm somewhat globose, 6-19 mm diam., fibreless or sometimes softly fibrous, mostly encircled by roots; fibres, if present, free from basal disc; roots thick, with felt-like epidermis. Cataphylls membranous, up to 60 mm long. Leaves 3-7, sheathing up to 50 mm long from base, spreading, often unilaterally, linear, 75-300 x 1.5-2.7 mm, canaliculate, shiny green, firm-textured, margin with minute, widely spaced, recurved, multicelluar teeth or entire. Inflorescences 1or 2 in flower at a time, up to 6 when in fruit, 1-flowered, shorter than leaves; scape up to 40 x 0.5-2 mm, somewhat laterally compressed; bracts 2, filiform, hardly clasping pedicel, 2.5-6.0 x 0.5 mm, colourless. Flower pedicellate, stellate, cadmium orange or yellow, centre usually with a small reddish brown eye, backed with a broad median green stripe, outer whorl usually whitish-edged and reddish brown-streaked on margins, unscented; pedicel suberect, spreading somewhat horizontally in fruit, 37-170 x 0.7-1.0 mm, subterete, reddish; tepals 6, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 18-32 mm long, outer 3.5-11.0 mm wide, prominently mucronate, inner 2.5-7.0 mm wide. Stamens 6, spreading widely, straight to curved outwards, subequal; filaments inserted on ovary rim, 1.0-2.5 mm long, much shorter than anthers, deep reddish brown, rarely pale yellow; anthers linear-oblong, latrorse, 6-10 x 0.5-1.0 mm, basal lobes ca. 0.5 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary subcylindrical to narrowly obconical, 5-10 x 1.5-3.5 mm, 3-locular; style ca. 0.5-1.0 mm long, yellow; stigma branches suberect to spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-5.1 x 0.7-1.0 mm, up to ca. half as long as stamens, often unequal, dark reddish brown, rarely yellow, densely papillose. Capsule obconical, slightly curved, up to 16 x 4 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds depressed-ellipsoid, ca. 0.8 x 0.7 mm; testa brownish black, of densely arranged isodiametric cells, outer periclinal walls almost fully hemispherical.