Strumaria aestivalis Snijman

Bulb solitary or occasionally forming bulblets, ovoid, 20-40 mm diam, with the outer covering fibrous, ranging from brown to cream-coloured, yellowish within; neck up to 70 mm long, rarely absent. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2(-3), recurved, lorate, 80-280 x 15-26 mm, canaliculate, both surfaces densely pubescent with long, patent, silky white hairs; amplexicaul cataphyll shortly exserted, tipped with red, soon withering down; non-amplexicaul prophyll hidden in the bulb. Inflorescence widely spreading, 60-100 mm across; scape 60-100 mm long, 2.5-4.0 mm diam., pale green to glaucous, sometimes flushed with pink, pubescent or glabrous, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 30-50 x 5-7 mm; bracteoles up to 20 mm long. Flowers 10-20, spreading, widely funnel-shaped, white, with a pale pink median dorsal band on each tepal, turning deeper pink with age, heavily scented; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 40-55 mm long, pale greenish pink. Tepals free to the base, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 12-14 x 3-5 mm. Stamens equalling the tepals, spreading slightly from near the base; filaments separate, 7-10 mm long, adnate to the broadened style base for up to 4 mm; the inner face of the inner whorl free, with only the lateral margins adnate to the broadly triquetrous style, thus forming 3 tubular nectar wells; anthers subcentrifixed, about 3 mm long before opening, wine-red; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with 1-2 ovules per locule. Style up to17 mm long, broadly triquetrous in the proximal third, tapering and slender distally. Seeds 4-6 mm diam.