Strumaria truncata Jacq.

Bulb globose to ovoid, 20-50 mm diam., occasionally forming bulblets, covered with densely fibrous pale brown to cream-coloured outer tunics, whitish within; neck usually stout, up to 70 mm long. Leaves absent or incipient at anthesis, 2-6, arranged in a fan, suberect or rarely recurved, narrowly to broadly lorate or somewhat falcate, 80-250 x (3-)7-16(-20) mm, twisted 1-3 times or rarely plane, varying from green to somewhat glaucous, glabrous, subtended by 1 or 2 amplexicaul cataphylls reaching up to 40 mm above ground; cataphyll initially inflated and liver-coloured, soon withering and turning brown; seedling glabrous. Inflorescence unilaterally clustered, 15-60 mm across; scape straight to somewhat flexuose, usually recurved near the apex, 90-480 mm long, 2-5 mm diam., pale green often suffused with pink or brown, covered with a grey bloom, collapsing after seed-release; spathe valves lanceolate, 15-28 x 3-8 mm, bracteoles up to 15 mm long. Flowers (3-)4-26, secund, more or less pendulous, varying from somewhat narrowly to broadly funnel-shaped, ranging from pure white to pink, turning deeper pink with age, scented; pedicels straight to recurved, 10-40 mm long, lengthening slightly and becoming upright in fruit, shiny green. Tepals free or with the outer and inner whorls adnate to the base of the staminal tube for about 1 mm and 2 mm respectively, spreading slightly, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate or occasionally narrowly elliptical, (7-)8-13(-16) x 2-5 mm. Stamens longer than the tepals, more or less spreading distally; filaments (9-)12-20 mm long, connate proximally into a tube 1.5-7.0(10.0) mm long; the outer filaments adnate proximally to the sharp angles of the 3-winged style for (1.5-)3.5-9.0 mm; the inner surface of the inner filaments free from the style thus forming 3 tubular nectar wells 2-8 mm deep; anthers dorsifixed, 2-4 mm long before opening, cream to pink; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with (2-)4-5(-7) ovules per locule. Style up to 25 mm long, slender, 3-winged proximally for 1.5-9.0 mm; the wings often protracted into teeth distally. Seeds 2-4 mm diam.