Strumaria karoopoortensis (D.Müll.-doblies & U.Müll.-doblies) Snijman

Bulb solitary, subglobose, 27-40 mm diam., with outer tunics usually densely fibrous and light brown, yellowish within, neck (30-)50-100 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2(-3), recurved to procumbent, ovate to broadly lorate 75-250 x 20-53 mm, glabrous or sparsely ciliate with hairs up to 2 mm long, flaccid, glaucous-green; apex subacute to obtuse; subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll; seedling more or less pubescent. Inflorescence spreading widely, 80-110 mm across; scape stout and erect, 135-180 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., glaucous-green, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 20-30 x 2-5 mm; bracteoles up to 7 mm long. Flowers 11-16, spreading, stellate, white, marked with a deep pink median stripe on each tepal, sometimes suffused with green apically, becoming increasingly flushed with deep pink with age, scentless; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, glaucous-green, 40-65 mm long. Tepals free to the base, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 10-14 x 3.5-6.0 mm, shortly clawed at the base, sometimes forming small windows up to 0.5 mm wide between adjacent tepals, conduplicate apically. Stamens equalling the tepals, spreading; filaments separate, adnate to the broadened style base, distinctly bulbous at the base, subulate above, up to 8 mm long; anthers subcentrifixed, about 3 mm long before opening, deep pink; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with up to 2-5 ovules per locule. Style up to 10 mm long, equalling the stamens, broad and depressed-conoidal basally, elongated into an upwardly tapered terete column distally, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments. Seeds 3-5 mm diam.