Pauridia ovata (L.F.) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 3.7-25 cm tall. Corm somewhat globose, 12-23 mm diam., fibreless, encircled by roots. Cataphylls absent at flowering. Leaves 3-8, loosely sheathing up to ca. 40 mm from base, lower leaves often outspread, upper leaves suberect then arching outwards distally, uppermost leaf largely clasping scape and pedicel, elliptical to broadly or narrowly lanceolate, 27-100 x (5-)8-20 mm, shallowly carinate, pale green, firm-textured, adaxial surface many-veined, minutely impresso-punctate with somewhat rectangular epidermal cells when dry, margin slightly raised, minutely papillate, apex acute. Inflorescence 1 in flower at a time, 1-flowered, exceeding leaves; scape often hidden amongst leaves, up to ca. 145 x 1 mm, slightly compressed in cross section, whitish to wine-red; bract 1, non-clasping, filiform, ca. 1.0 x 0.1 mm, colourless. Flower pedicellate, stellate, white, backed with yellow at base and wine-red elsewhere in outer whorl, contrasting colouring less marked in inner whorl, unscented; pedicel suberect, remaining so in fruit, 55-125 x ca. 1 mm, subterete, wine-red; tepals 6, elliptical-lanceolate, 6-17 mm long, outer 2-6 mm wide, minutely mucronate, inner 1.5-4.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, somewhat spreading, subequal, yellow; filaments inserted on ovary rim, 1.5-2.0 mm long, subequal to shorter than anthers; anthers narrowly triangular to oblong-linear, latrorse, 2.0-6.5 x 0.5 mm, basal lobes 0.2 mm long; pollen yellow. Ovary somewhat narrowly to broadly obconical, 4-9 x 2.0-2.5 mm, 1-locular, green; style 0.5-1 mm long; stigma branches suberect, lanceolate, 2.5-4.0 x 1.0-2.0 mm, shorter than to almost equalling stamens, yellow, with prominent basal lobes, up to 1.5 mm long, spreading between filaments, densely papillose, often convolute. Capsule broadly obconical, 6-12 x 4-6 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds depressed ellipsoid, 0.35 x 0.30 mm; testa black, covered with ca. 15 widely spaced, longitudinal rows of low, rounded, hump-like projections, outlines of anticlinal walls not evident.