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

Bulb solitary, ovoid, 15-19 mm diam., covered with lightly fibrous, light brown outer tunics, yellowish within; neck up to 50 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, usually appressed to the ground, occasionally ascending, ovate, 15-20(-50) x 7-18 mm; adaxial surface dark shiny green, minutely scabrid around the edges and on the margin; abaxial surface light green, smooth; subtended by an amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence slightly spreading, 20-40 mm across; scape straight to flexuose, 40-100 mm long, 1-2 mm diam., green becoming reddened proximally; spathe valves narrowly lanceolate, 10-20 x 2 mm; bracteoles up to 3 mm long. Flowers 5-12, very widely funnel-shaped, pale pink, flushed with pink medianly, ageing to reddish pink, scentless; pedicels straight, 15-40 mm long, rosy-green. Tepals free to the base, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 6.5-7.5 x 1.8-2.5 mm, with involute edges. Stamens more or less equalling the tepals, closely surrounding the style; filaments separate, up to 6 mm long, adnate to the slightly thickened style base, both whorls only slightly thickened basally, tapering smoothly distally; anthers subcentrifixed, about 1.5 mm long and deep pink before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Style up to 8 mm long, equalling the stamens, narrowly conoidal proximally, tapering gradually distally, with nectar collecting between the base and the inner filaments. Seeds unknown.