Pauridia minuta T.Durand & Schinz

Plants 1.5-8 cm tall. Corm more or less globose, 5-8 mm diam., covered with reticulate, brown fibrous tunics, sometimes producing runners terminating in cormlets; fibres attached to basal disc, ending in a sharp point distally; roots slender, arising close to corm base. Cataphylls membranous, up to ca. 7 mm long. Leaves 3-7, sheathing at base up to 3.5 cm, somewhat erect to spreading, narrowly to broadly linear, 10-100 x 0.5-5.0 mm, attenuate proximally, terete to canaliculate, margin entire or rarely minutely papillate. Inflorescences 1-3(-5) in flower at a time, 1(2)-flowered, shorter or longer than leaves; scape up to 50 x 0.5 mm, often hidden amongst leaves, greenish white; bracts 2, clasping pedicel at base, filamentous, 1-10 x 0.5 mm, membranous. Flowers pedicellate, campanulate to shortly funnelform, white, usually greyish in throat, backed with pale pink in both whorls, sometimes striped or tipped with green or reddish green in outer whorl, sometimes faintly sweet-scented; pedicels spreading, recurved during fruit development, becoming horizontal when ripe, 2-33 x 0.5 mm, pale green to pale pink; perigone tube 1-4 x 2 mm, tepals 6, outspread, oblong-elliptic, as long as to slightly more than twice as long as tube, 3-5 mm long, outer 1.5-2.5 mm wide, minutely mucronate, inner 1.2-2.0 mm wide. Stamens 3, more or less erect; filaments inserted on tube below inner tepals, 0.4-1.0 mm long, shorter than anthers; anthers oblong, latrorse, 1.0-3.5 mm long, basal lobes up to 0.5 mm long, apex sometimes deeply notched, pale yellow or white. Ovary obconical, ca. 2.0 x 1.5 mm, 3-locular, rarely 2-or 1-locular; style 0.2-1.5 mm long; stigma branches 3, erect, linear, up to 4 mm long, shorter than or exceeding stamens, white, margin minutely papillose in distal 2/3 or rarely throughout, occasionally some lobes absent, with a short downturned hook developed at or shortly below each branch cleft. Capsules ovoid-obconic, ca. 2.0 x 1.5 mm, walls moulded over seeds, disintegrating irregularly. Seeds globose, ca. 0.44 x 0.40 mm; testa shiny black, covered with rounded elevations in close-set, longitudinal rows, outer periclinal cell walls somewhat hemispherical, with a flat rim. Flowering period: April-mid-June.