Romulea tabularis Eckl. ex Bég.

Plants 50-150(-200) mm high. Corm globose, obliquely flattened toward base with crescent-shaped basal ridge ± as wide as corm, 5-10 mm diam., tunics splitting into fine parallel fibrils along ridge. Stem usually aerial, exserted up to 150 mm. Leaves 2 to 5, lowermost 1(2) basal when stem exserted, terete or compressed-cylindric and narrowly 4-grooved, 1-2 mm diam., cauline leaves clustered at stem apex. Peduncles up to 10, up to 80 mm long, semiterete, strongly curved initially in fruit but later suberect; outer bracts green with narrow membranous margins, 8-16(-20) mm long, lightly striate (4 or 5 veins/mm), inner bracts either green or submembranous with central part flushed purplish, with broad membranous margins speckled with brown along margins and sometimes in central area. Flowers usually pale or darker lavender-blue or white to cream-coloured in distal half, cup and lower half of segments orange or golden-yellow, often with pale transverse band in throat, outer tepals irregularly streaked or entirely purple or green on reverse, sometimes lightly scented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 3-5 mm long; tepals elliptic, 10-28 x 3-7 mm. Filaments 3-6 mm long, pilose basally, yellow; anthers 3-6 mm long. Style dividing slightly below to beyond anther tips, branches 1-2 mm long, divided halfway. Capsules ellipsoid or cylindric, ± 10 mm long.