Tritonia deusta Ker Gawl.

Plants (50)100-300(-400) mm high. Corm subglobose, 15-30 mm diam., with cormlets at base; tunics of fine-textured fibres. Stem erect, simple or with up to 2 branches. Leaves 5 to 8, suberect to falcate, lanceolate-ensiform, (20-)40-100(-200) x (2-)3-10(-15) mm, acute or subobtuse, with evident midrib, cauline leaves bract-like and often dry. Spike moderately deflexed, subsecund, (2)5-to 15-flowered; bracts dry and papery, whitish or flushed pink but brown and densely speckled with rusty brown distally and on upper margins, 5-13 mm long, outer obtuse or 3-toothed with median tooth smaller, inner bifid. Flowers subactinomorphic, widely cup-shaped, long, bright orange to orange-red or salmon, outer tepals sometimes with a dark reddish black blotch or transverse band at base of limb or lower tepals with small yellow or dark blotch or line, tube yellow with star-shaped yellow mouth outlined with red, unscented; perianth tube abruptly funnel-shaped, 8-12 mm long, subfiliform and arcuate in lower 2-4 mm widening abruptly to 6-8 mm diam.; tepals subequal or inner slightly broader, spreading, elliptic or obovate to obovate-spathulate, obtuse or minutely emarginate, (13-)15-25 x 5-12 mm, lower median or all 3 outer tepals with low ridge-like callus along midline. Filaments unilateral but diverging, 7-9 mm long, reaching < halfway up perianth, often orange distally; anthers 5-8 mm long, pale or purple; pollen yellow. Style 15-20 mm long, dividing opposite middle of anthers, branches 3-5 mm long. Capsules shortly ellipsoid or obovoid, 7-8 x 6 mm.