Strumaria barbariae Oberm.

Bulb solitary, ovoid, about 25-30 mm diam, with softly fibrous dark to pale brown outer tunics, cream-coloured within; neck up to 90 mm long or sometimes absent. Leaves incipient at anthesis, 2-4, arranged in a fan, erect to recurved, lorate, up to 200 x 5-8 mm, glabrous, shiny green; cataphyll and prophyll unknown; seedling unknown. Inflorescence somewhat clustered, up to 80 mm across; scape erect, 215-250(-430) mm long, 2-4 mm diam., green with a grey bloom; spathe valves lanceolate, 25-60 x 5-6 mm, bracteoles up to 50 mm long. Flowers (3-)4-12, pendulous, widely funnel-shaped to trumpet-shaped, white, becoming flushed with pink towards the base with age, strongly scented; pedicels declinate at anthesis, later becoming erect, 18-35 mm long, lengthening to 45 mm in fruit, green. Tepals cut to the base, with the outer and inner whorls adnate to the base of the staminal tube for up to 6 mm and 7 mm respectively, oblanceolate, 30-38 x 4.5-9.0 mm, imbricate in the lower two thirds, spreading to recurved above. Stamens slightly shorter than the tepals, somewhat spreading; filaments up to 30 mm long, connate proximally into a tube about 4 mm long, adnate proximally to the sharp edges of the 3-angled style for 4-7 mm, with the inner surface of the inner filaments free from the style thus forming 3 tubular nectar wells about 4 mm deep; anthers dorsifixed, about 4 mm long before opening, pale yellow; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary usually with 6 or 7 ovules per locule. Style up to 35 mm long, slender, 3-angled in the proximal third. Seeds unknown.