Strumaria chaplinii (W.F.Barker) Snijman

Bulb solitary, subglobose, 15-20 mm across, with brown fibrous outer tunics, whitish within; neck extending up to 30 mm. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, prostrate, narrowly obovate-oblong to lorate, 15-65 x 5-10 mm; adaxial surface green, covered with 0.2-6.0 mm long, white, patent hairs; abaxial surface glabrous, green or flushed with red proximally; subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence widely spreading, 40-150 mm across; scape somewhat flexuose, 35-100 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., green to pinkish with a grey bloom, abscising at the base in fruit; spathe valves linear-lanceolate, 10-30 x 3-7 mm; bracteoles up to 20 mm long. Flowers 4-14, spreading, stellate, white with a reddish or greenish-brown dorsal median stripe on each tepal, ageing to darker shades of pink, scentless; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 20-80 mm long, concolorous with the scape. Tepals free to base, outspread, ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 x 1.5-2.75 mm, plane-surfaced. Stamens slightly shorter than the tepals, spreading; filaments separate, adnate to the broadened style base with the inner whorl attached higher up than the outer, both whorls somewhat bulbous-based, tapering distally; anthers subcentrifixed, 2 mm long and wine-red before opening; pollen whitish. Ovary with 1-4 ovules per locule. Style up to 5 mm long, equalling the stamens, tapering smoothly upwards from a broad depressed-conoidal base, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments. Seeds 3.0-3.5 mm diam.