Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) Snijman

Bulb ovoid, 15-30 mm diam., with light brown fibrous outer tunics; inner scales whitish; neck up to 25 mm long or absent. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2(-3), oblong-oval to broadly lorate, 40-140 x 17-35 mm, glabrous on both surfaces; adaxial surface dark green; margin densely fringed with 1-3 mm long soft, white hairs; subtended by a non-amplexicaul prophyll and an amplexicaul cataphyll which may protrude slightly above ground and turn green or reddish brown. Inflorescence widely spreading, 50-140 mm across; scape flexuose, 40-150 mm long, about 3 mm diam., breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe-valves linear-lanceolate, 15-25 x 2-3 mm; bracteoles up to 6 mm long. Flowers 8-15, ascending to spreading, stellate, white with a pale green or darker pink dorsal median stripe on each tepal; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 40-60 mm long. Tepals free to the base, outspread, ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 x 2-3 mm, slightly channelled. Stamens slightly shorter than the tepals, spreading; filaments separate, adnate to the broadened style base, with the inner filaments broader basally than the outer, both whorls distinctly bulbous proximally, tapering upwards; anthers subcentrifixed, 2 mm long and cream to wine-red before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with 2-3 ovules per locule. Style lengthening to about 5 mm, with the proximal third somewhat bulbiform, tapering into a slender column distally. Seeds about 3 mm diam.