Pauridia umbraticola (Schltr.) Snijman & Kocyan

Plants 6-15 cm tall. Corm depressed-globose, 6-10 mm diam., almost naked basally, otherwise covered with fine, brown, fibrous tunics; fibres reticulate, shortly acuminate distally; roots spreading from near corm base. Cataphylls membranous, up to 6 mm long, loosely sheathing. Leaves 2 or 3, sheathing up to 4 mm from base, curved, lorate, attenuate proximally, 50-200 x 1.0-3.5 mm, carinate, pale green, more or less glistening in sunlight, veins somewhat translucent, margin entire, apex acute. Inflorescences 1 or 2 in flower at a time, (1)2-flowered, shorter or longer than leaves; scape 25-65 x 0.7 mm, compressed, pale green; bracts 2, 1 sometimes reduced and inconspicuous, clasping pedicel for most of length, narrowly lanceolate, keeled, 16-35 x ca. 2.5 mm, pale green, edge translucent, apex acute, rarely with a few membranous teeth. Flowers pedicellate, stellate, yellow, backed with pale green, medianly streaked with red on outer tepals, unscented; pedicels more or less spreading, 20-55 mm long, pale green; tepals 6, inserted on a short beak, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 7-12 mm long, outer ca. 3.5 mm wide, mucronate, inner 2.5-3.0 mm wide. Stamens 6, somewhat spreading, unequal, yellow; filaments inserted on ovary beak, outer 2.5-3.0 mm long, inner 3.0-3.5 mm long, shorter than to equalling anthers, yellow; anthers narrowly oblong, latrorse, ca. 3.5 mm long, basal lobes ca. 0.7 mm long, apex emarginate; pollen yellow. Ovary subcylindrical, 7-11 x ca. 1.5 mm, often beaked distally up to 2 mm long, 3-locular, green with a few longitudinal red stripes; style 2.0-3.5 mm long; stigma branches erect, oblong, 3.0-4.5 mm long, ca. as long as stamens, not lobed at base, yellow, densely papillose. Capsules unknown. Seeds unknown.