Romulea flava (Lam.) M.p.de Vos

Plants 50-300 mm high. Corm globose, obliquely flattened toward base with crescent-shaped basal ridge, 6-15 mm diam., tunics splitting into fine parallel fibrils along ridge. Stem subterranean or aerial, exserted up to 200 mm, elongating in fruit. Leaves 3 or 4, lowermost 1 basal, terete or compressed-cylindrical, narrowly or widely 4-grooved, 1-3 mm diam., glabrous or ciliolate along rib margins, cauline leaves clustered at stem apex, sheaths often wide. Peduncles up to 8, up to 70 mm long, semiterete, glabrous or ciliolate along angles, sharply arcuate in fruit or ultimately suberect; outer bracts green with narrow membranous margins, 8-20(-28) mm long, striate or lightly ribbed (4 to 6 veins/mm), inner bracts entirely membranous or sometimes submembranous in centre, central portion sometimes conspicuously brown-spotted, with broad membranous margins streaked or speckled with brown. Flowers pale or sulphur-yellow, white, pale blue or rarely pink, with yellow or greenish cup, outer tepals frequently green or greenish brown on reverse, white forms sometimes scented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 3-7 mm long; tepals elliptic or oblanceolate, 10-30 x 2-12 mm. Filaments 4-7 mm long, pilose basally, yellow; anthers 3-7 mm long. Style dividing shortly below or beyond anther tips, branches 2 mm long, divided halfway. Capsules ellipsoid or shortly cylindric, ± 10 mm long.