Romulea triflora N.E.Br.

Plants 50-200 mm high. Corm bell-shaped with flat base and pronounced circular basal rim, 5-10 mm diam., tunics woody, basal rim irregularly fringed, sometimes scalloped. Stem aerial and exserted up to 150 mm or rarely short and subterranean, sometimes extensively branched. Leaves 3 to 7, lower 2 basal, terete and narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., glabrous. Peduncles up to 7, hemiterete, spreading in fruit; outer bracts green with narrow, colourless or rarely brown-flecked membranous margins, 10-20 mm long, finely striate (4 or 5 veins/mm), inner bracts with narrow or wider, colourless or rarely brown-flecked membranous margins. Flowers golden-yellow or rarely white, sometimes with a dark median line or diffuse brown zone in throat, outer tepals sometimes greenish or brown on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4-6 mm long; tepals oblanceolate to elliptic, 15-30 x 7-12 mm, often obtuse. Filaments 4-7 mm long, pilose in lower part, yellow; anthers 3-7 mm long, yellow. Style dividing shortly below to shortly above anther apices, branches divided. Capsules oblong, ± 10 mm long.