Romulea monticola M.p.de Vos

Plants 50-100 mm high. Corm globose or obovoid, 5-15 mm diam., rounded or crested below, tunics woody, split into curved or bent, grooved teeth below. Stem subterranean. Leaves 3 to 12, all evidently basal, terete-filiform, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., sometimes minutely ciliolate on rib margins. Peduncles up to 5, semi-terete, reddish brown, suberect or recurved in fruit; outer bracts greenish or brownish and submembranous in lower half, with brown-speckled, membranous margins, 10-30 mm long, closely ribbed above (± 8 veins/mm), inner bracts with wide, brown-speckled membranous margins. Flowers golden-yellow, often with darker cup, with 1 or more dark veins in throat, outer tepals reddish brown or streaked with brown on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 3-4 mm long; tepals oblanceolate to elliptic, 18-27 x 5-7 mm. Filaments 4-5 mm long, pilose basally, yellow; anthers 3-4 mm long, initially joined at tips, yellow. Style dividing opposite anthers. Capsules subglobose or oblong, 8-10 mm long.