Romulea biflora (Beg.) M.p.de Vos

Plants 40-150(-200) mm high. Corm globose, obliquely flattened toward base with crescent-or horseshoe-shaped basal ridge ± as wide as corm, 10-15 mm diam., tunics splitting into fine parallel fibrils along ridge. Stem subterranean or aerial, exserted up to 150 mm. Leaves 3 to 5, lowermost 2 basal when stem exserted, terete or filiform and narrowly 4-grooved, 1.0-1.5 mm diam. Peduncles up to 4, up to 50 mm long, semiterete, suberect or bent in fruit; outer bracts green with narrow membranous margins, 12-25 mm long, widely striate (3 or 4 veins/mm), inner bracts with broad, brown-flecked membranous margins. Flowers bright pink to old rose-coloured with large, violet to purple blotches around small, golden-yellow cup with dark veins in cup, outer tepals mottled or striped red and greenish on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4-6 mm long; tepals elliptic, 18-35 x 6-10 mm. Filaments 5-7 mm long, pilose basally, orange-yellow; anthers 5-8 mm long, yellow or rarely violet. Style dividing below or beyond anther apices, branches ± 2 mm long, deeply divided. Capsules subglobose to ellipsoid, up to 12 mm long.