Strumaria villosa Snijman

Bulb solitary, subglobose, 15-25 mm diam., with light brown lightly fibrous outer tunics, yellowish within; neck up to 35 mm. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, prostrate, narrowly elliptical to lorate, 30-85 x 10-15 mm; adaxial surface glaucous, covered with 2.5 mm long, soft white patent hairs; abaxial surface glabrous, shiny green, subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence spreading, 30-100 mm across; scape slightly flexuose, 60-140 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., pale green to pink with a grey bloom, breaking loose at the base in fruit; spathe valves linear-lanceolate, 15-20 x 4 mm; bracteoles up to 5 mm long. Flowers 8-14, spreading, stellate, pure white or white to pink with a pale pink median dorsal stripe on each tepal, scentless; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 35-80 mm long, concolorous with the scape. Tepals free to the base, outspread to slightly deflexed, oblong-lanceolate, 6.5-8.5 x 2-3 mm, distinctly channelled with undulate margins proximally. Stamens equalling or slightly shorter than the tepals, spreading; filaments separate, adnate to the broadened style base, with the inner whorl attached higher up than the outer, broad but not bulbous basally, tapering slightly upwards; anthers subcentrifixed, 1.5 mm long and wine-red before dehiscing; pollen whitish. Ovary with up to 4 ovules per locule. Style up to 5 mm long, more or less equalling the stamens, tapering smoothly upwards from a broad obscurely conoidal base, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments. Seeds about 2 mm diam.