Strumaria discifera Marloth ex Snijman

Bulbs solitary or forming large clumps, ovoid to subglobose, 10-20 mm diam., with outer tunics light brown and softly fibrous, white or occasionally pale mauve within; neck (10-) 20-60 mm long. Leaves absent or incipient at anthesis, 2 (-3), suberect to prostrate, narrowly lanceolate, 20-160 x 3-10 mm, pubescence variable, with long soft hairs or short hairs covering both surfaces or the adaxial surface only, rarely glabrous, sometimes flushedwith red towards the base of the abaxial surface, with subacute tips, subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence spreading, 25-130 mm across; scape somewhat flexuose, 50-140 mm long, about 2 mm diam., green to reddish brown, variably pubescent to glabrous; usually breaking off atground level while fruiting; spathe valves linear-lanceolate, up to 30 x 3 mm; bracteoles up to 5 mm long. Flowers (2-) 5-16, spreading, stellate, glistening white, with an olive-green to pink median dorsal stripe on each tepal, scented or scentless; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 20-75 mm long, concolorous with the scape. Tepals free to base, outspread, with the outer whorl often deflexed, oblong-lanceolate, 4-7 x 1.5-3.0 mm, channelled, sometimes abruptly conduplicate in the proximal third. Stamens equalling or swollen style, with the inner whorl usually attached slightly higher up than the outer; anthers subcentrifixed, about 2 mm long and wine-red before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with up to 1-3 ovules per locule. Style up to 7 mm long, equallingor shortly exceeding the stamens, variably dilated in the proximal half, either bulbiform or solidly cylindrical with a prominent irregular distal rim, narrowly terete in the distal half, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments. Seeds 2.5-1.0 mm diam.