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

Bulb solitary, ovoid, 15-19 mm diam., with a fine felt-like covering, pale yellow within; neck 50-80 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, appressed to the ground, ovate to suborbicular, 23-30(-50) x 18-23 mm, convex on the adaxial surface, concave on the other; adaxial surface with dense marginal hairs 0.5-1.0(-1.3) mm long, otherwise glabrous. Inflorescence slightly to widely spreading, 60-70 mm across; scape flexuose, 80-120 mm long, 2-5 mm diam., dark wine-red proximally, leaden-grey above; spathe valves lanceolate, 13-25 x 2-5 mm; bracteoles up to 3.5 mm long. Flowers 9-14, initially somewhat clustered, spreading later, stellate, pale pink, with an olive green dorsal median stripe on each tepal, ageing to deeper pink, scented; pedicels straight, 25-43 mm long, leaden-grey flushed with pink.Tepals free to the base, outspread or occasionally slightly deflexed, oblong-lanceolate 3.5-8.5 x 1.2-2.0 mm, channelled. Stamens equalling or slightly shorter than the tepals, widely spreading; filaments separate, up to 5 mm long, adnate to the broadened style base, somewhat bulbous proximally, subulate distally; anthers sub-centrifixed, 1.8 mm long and wine-red before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with an unknown number of ovules. Style slightly exceeding the stamens, up to 9 mm long, depressed-conoidal basally, extending into a narrowly tapering terete column distally, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments.