Romulea vinacea M.p.de Vos

Plants 40-150(-200) mm high. Corm globose, obliquely flattened toward base with crescent-shaped basal ridge ± as wide as corm, 5-15 mm diam., tunics splitting into fine parallel fibrils along ridge, sometimes forming fibrous neck above. Stem subterranean or aerial, exserted up to 100 mm. Leaves 3 to 5, lowermost 2 basal when stem exserted, terete or filiform and narrowly 4-grooved, 1.0-1.5 mm diam., ciliate along rib margins. Peduncles up to 3, up to 50 mm long, semiterete, ciliolate along angles, suberect in fruit; outer bracts green with narrow membranous margins, 12-25 mm long, finely striate (5 or 6 veins/mm), inner bracts with broad, membranous margins brown-flecked along edge. Flowers pale lavender or lilac with darker veins or small blotch at base around cream-coloured cup marked with yellow at base, outer tepals glossy plum-coloured or wine-red on reverse, inner tepals pale lilac; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4-6(-8) mm long; tepals elliptic, 14-28 x 6-10 mm, usually obtuse. Filaments 6-9 mm long, pilose throughout or only basally, cream-coloured; anthers 4-6 mm long, cream-coloured. Style dividing ± at anther apices, branches ± 3 mm long, divided halfway. Capsules subglobose to ellipsoid, 5-15 mm long.