Pauridia maximiliani (Schltr.) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 9-24 cm tall. Corm somewhat globose, 5-10 mm diam., fibreless, outer layers slightly brittle, dark brown; roots growing from corm distally, often tangled around corm. Cataphylls membranous, up to 15 mm long. Leaves 2-5, not sheathing at base, spreading to arched, lorate, 70-250 x 4-20 mm, attenuate proximally, tapering evenly upwards, carinate, pale green, thin-textured and brittle, margin minutely papillate. Inflorescences 1 or 2 in flower at a time, 2(3)-flowered, shorter or rarely as long as leaves; scape up to 100 x 1.5-3.0 mm, ancipitous, pale green, edges mostly hyaline; bracts 2, loosely clasping pedicels proximally or for most of length, lanceolate, 17-45 x 4-5 mm, more or less keeled, pale green, thin-textured, margin somewhat translucent. Flowers pedicellate, stellate, yellow, backed with green in outer whorl, unscented; pedicels spreading, more so in fruit, 13-45 x 1.0-1.5 mm, compressed, pale green; tepals 6, ovate-subacute, 7-9 mm long, outer 3-4 mm wide, minutely mucronate, inner 2.0-2.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, suberect proximally, spreading distally, equal or outer slightly shorter than inner, yellow; filaments 2.5-3.0 mm long, more or less as long as anthers, adnate to style for up to ca. 1.5 mm; anthers oblong, latrorse, ca. 2.5 x 0.7 mm, basal lobes 0.5 mm long; pollen yellow. Ovary elongated, usually uniformly narrow, trigonous, 13-30 x 1.5-2.0 mm, 1-locular, with 3 parietal placentae; style ca. 1.5 mm long; stigma branches erect, oblanceolate, ca. 3.5 x 0.7 mm, unequal, as long as or slightly exceeding stamens, yellow, with prominent basal lobes, up to 1 mm long, spreading between filaments, densely papillose. Capsules narrowly trigonous, up to 30 x 3 mm, dehiscence longitudinal close to septa. Seeds depressed ellipsoid, 0.5 x 0.4 mm; testa brownish black, of transversally widened cells, arranged in ca. 24 longitudinal ribs, outer periclinal cell walls smoothly convex.