Strumaria prolifera Snijman

Deciduous, bulbous herb, 120-200 mm tall in flower. Bulbs clumped, producing bulblets, subglobose, ± 25 diam.; outer tunics pale brown, parchment-like; neck slender, up to 20 mm long. Leaves emerging with inflorescence, distichous, 2 or 3, suberect to recurved at first, spreading flat on ground when mature, narrowly lorate, 80-180 x 4-8 mm, plane, thin-textured, pale green, glabrous; apex subacute; outermost 2 leaves sheathing at base; cataphyll not exserted above ground; seedlings glabrous. Inflorescence 2-4-flowered, unilaterally clustered, 15-30 mm across; scape more or less erect, roundish oblanceolate, 18-20 x 4.0-4.5 mm, narrowing to 1.5 mm at base, spreading slightly. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than tepals, spreading distally; filaments ± 15 mm long, connate proximally into a 3-5 mm long tube, outer whorl proximally adnate to 3-winged style for ± 3 mm, inner whorl free from style forming ± 3 mm deep nectar wells; anthers dorsifixed, 2 mm long and cream-coloured before opening; pollen pale lemon-coloured. Ovary ovoidal, 2-3 mm diam., trilocular with 2 ovules per locule, pinkish green; nectaries septal; style 14 mm long, slightly shorter than stamens, ± 3-winged proximally; stigma trifid, papillate. Capsule papery, small, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds green, fleshy, ± 5 mm diam.; embryo green.