Romulea syringodeoflora M.p.de Vos

Plants 20-50 mm high. Corm globose, rounded, 10-15 mm diam., oblique, tunics woody, splitting into curved teeth below, with fibrous neck 20-50 mm long. Stem subterranean. Leaves 5 to 7, all basal, arcuate or spreading, terete, narrowly 4-grooved, 1.5-2.5 mm diam., median ribs glabrous or ciliate on margins with hairs up to 0.5 mm long. Peduncles up to 5, usually shortly exserted, terete; outer bracts green with narrow, colourless membranous margins, 15-20 mm long, closely ribbed (8 to 10 veins/mm), inner bracts with broad colourless membranous margins. Flowers salver-shaped, magenta to dark pink with yellowish throat outlined with red or purple, tepals feathered purple on reverse, tube longitudinally banded with purple and yellow; perianth tube cylindric, 15-22 mm long; tepals narrowly elliptic, spreading, 10-17 x 3-5 mm long. Filaments inserted at mouth of tube, 4-5 mm long, glabrous, white; anthers 4-6 mm long, dark purple; pollen reddish brown. Style dividing near anther apices, branches ± 2 mm long, divided ± halfway.