Romulea fibrosa M.p.de Vos

Plants 60-250(-500) mm high. Corm ovoid, 10-20 mm diam., oblique with crescent-shaped basal ridge, tunics cartilaginous or papery, with clusters of converging fibrils on ridge, each cluster splitting longitudinally into narrow strips fringed on margins, decaying above into a softly fibrous neck 20-80 mm long. Stem aerial, filiform, exserted up to 300 mm, branching near apex. Leaves 3 or 4, lower 1 or 2 basal, terete-filiform, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., glabrous or ciliolate on rib margins, cauline leaves much shorter and clustered near top of stem. Peduncles up to 4, terete, suberect in fruit; outer bracts green or submembranous with narrow colourless or reddish membranous margins and tips, 10-25 mm long, lightly striate (5 to 7 veins/mm), inner bracts with wide membranous margins, usually rusty-red in upper half or colourless. Flowers pink to purple with yellow or orange cup and with diffuse purple blotches in throat, outer tepals reddish purple or veined and feathered on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4-7 mm long; tepals oblanceolate or obovate, 16-25 x 7-10 mm. Filaments 5-8 mm long, sparsely puberulous basally or glabrous, yellow; anthers 4-6 mm long, yellow to mauve. Style dividing shortly below anther apices. Capsules oblong, ± 8 mm long.