Romulea citrina Baker

Plants 50-200 mm high. Corm globose, obliquely flattened toward base with crescent-shaped basal ridge, 8-15 mm diam., tunics splitting into fine parallel fibrils along ridge. Stem subterranean or exserted up to 150 mm. Leaves 3 to 5, lower 2 basal when stem exserted, filiform or terete to compressed-terete, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5-1.5 mm diam. Peduncles up to 4, up to 80 mm long, semiterete, strongly curved initially in fruit but later erect; outer bracts green with narrow membranous margins, 8-10 mm long, lightly ribbed (5 or 6 veins/mm), inner bracts with broad, brown-streaked or-edged membranous margins and sometimes speckled in central area below. Flowers lemon-or canary-yellow, sometimes paler or darker in cup and veins sometimes darker, outer tepals often greenish or brownish on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4-7 mm long; tepals elliptic, 15-32 x 4-10 mm. Filaments 5-8 mm long, pilose basally, yellow; anthers 4-7 mm long, yellow. Style dividing shortly below to shortly above anther tips, branches 2-3 mm long, divided halfway. Capsules shortly cylindric, 10-15 mm long.