Strumaria picta W.F.Barker

Bulb solitary, ovoid, 25-45 mm diam., densely covered with felt-like greyish brown outer tunics, cream-coloured within; neck stout, up to 30 mm long. Leaves absent or incipient at anthesis, (2-)3-4(-5), appearing to be only 2 through reduction of the blades in other leaves, spreading, lorate, 40-150 x 12-30 mm, somewhat leathery, glaucous, with the edges plane or slightly revolute; abaxial surface flushed with pink at the base; margin densely ciliate with minute hairs; apex obtuse; subtended by a non-amplexicaul prophyll; cataphyll lacking; seedling more or less pubescent or rarely glabrous. Inflorescence-somewhat clustered, 30-70 mm across; scape somewhat flexuose, 65-135 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., minutely pubescent, pale green to wine-red, persistent throughout fruiting then collapsing; spathe valves ovate-lanceolate, 13-15 x 3-5 mm; bracteoles up to 10 mm long. Flowers 5-11, more or less ascending, widely campanulate, white, broadly banded with reddish brown dorsally, becoming reddish brown with age, with a spicy scent; pedicels straight to somewhat upwardly curved, 10-30 mm long, minutely pubescent, red to green. Tepals free to the base, spreading, oblanceolate, 2.0-8.5 x 4.5-5.0 mm. Stamens shorter than the tepals, spreading slightly; filaments separate, up to 9 mm long, adnate to the style base, laterally expanded and with a longitudinal ventral ridge in the proximal half, tapering gradually distally; inner filaments broader than the outer; anthers subcentrifixed, about 3 mm long before opening, dark red; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with 3-5 ovules per locule, sometimes minutely pubescent. Style up to 12 mm long, narrowly ovoid and shallowly 6-grooved in the proximal two thirds, tapering gradually distally, with 3 nectar droplets collecting between the base and inner filaments. Seeds 4-5 mm diam.