Strumaria perryae Snijman

Bulb solitary, globose, 10-15 mm diam, with lightly fibrous, light brown outer tunics, whitish within; neck up to 45 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, suberect to recurved, narrowly lorate to lanceolate, 50-150(-250) x 2.5-5.0 mm, softly pubescent with hairs up to 2 mm long on both surfaces, flushed with red towards the base of the abaxial surface, subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence somewhat clustered, 25-30 mm across; scape erect to flexuose, 50-165(-240) mm long, about 1 mm diam., reddish pink with a grey bloom, rarely pubescent, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves linear-lanceolate, 15-20 x 1-2 mm; bracteoles up to 6 mm long. Flowers 3-11, more or less ascending, widely funnel-shaped, scentless; pale pink with a deeper pink median dorsal band on each tepal, turning deep pink with age; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 20-30(-60) mm long, pale green to reddish pink. Tepals shortly adnate to the filaments for up to 1 mm, otherwise free, the outer spreading more widely than the inner, oblong-lanceolate, 10-17 x 2.5-4.0 mm. Stamens suberect to slightly spreading, exserted beyond the tepals; filaments separate, up to 17 mm long, with the outer and inner whorls adnate to the style base for up to 2.5 mm and 3.5 mm respectively; anthers subcentrifixed about 3 mm long before opening, dark maroon; pollen cream-coloured. Style up to 19 mm long, equalling or slightly exceeding the stamens, slightly thickened and trigonous proximally, tapering gradually upwards; with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the style and inner filaments. Seeds 2.0-2.5 mm diam.