Strumaria pubescens W.F.Barker

Bulbs subglobose to ovoid, 15-35 mm diam., often clumped; outer covering softly fibrous, light brown; inner tunics yellowish; neck up to 100 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2(-3), spreading, lorate, 45-230 x 10-27 mm, light green; adaxial surface usually covered with 2-4 mm long, soft, white hairs, occasionally glabrous, somewhat canaliculate towards the base; abaxial surface flushed with red basally, glabrous; margin softly hairy; subtended by a subterranean, amplexicaul cataphyll and a non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence a lax to fairly dense umbel, 20-80 mm across; scape straight, up to 170 mm long, 1.5-3.0 mm diam., light green to reddish brown, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 13-30 x 1-4 mm; bracteoles up to 3 mm long. Flowers 4-30, more or less ascending, funnel-shaped, delicate pink with a darker pink median dorsal band, becoming tinged with mauve with age, scented; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 18-40 mm long, light green to reddish brown. Tepals shortly adnate to the filaments for 0.5-2.5 mm, otherwise free, narrowly oblanceolate, 10-20 x 2.5-4.0 mm broad. Stamens more or less half as long as the tepals, suberect; filaments separate, up to 10 mm long, with the outer slightly shorter than the inner, both whorls shortly adnate to the style base for up to 2.5 mm; anthers subcentrifixed, dark maroon to cream-coloured; pollen cream-coloured. Style up to 7.5 mm long, equalling the stamens, thickened and trigonous proximally, narrowing smoothly upwards. Seeds about 3 mm diam.