Tritonia flabellifolia (D.Delaroche) G.J.Lewis

Plants 150-300(-450) mm high. Corm subglobose or depressed-globose, 10-20(-30) mm diam., tunics of fine-textured fibres, extending in a papery or fibrous neck. Stem ± erect below, inclined above, uppermost cauline leaf, simple or up to 3-branched. Leaves 6 to 10, drying and brown at flowering, stiffly suberect or arcuate, ± reaching to base of spike, linear to linear-lanceolate, 50-150(-200) x (2-)4-6(-10) mm, acuminate to attenuate, firm, with main vein moderately thickened, secondary veins prominent and lightly thickened, cauline leaves smaller, entirely sheathing. Spike inclined, subsecund, 3-to 7-flowered; bracts dry and papery, translucent below, pale brownish densely speckled with dark reddish brown above, outer (10-)15-30(-50) mm long, acuminate or attenuate-aristate, rarely with 3 acuminate tips held close together, keeled with strong median vein, inner slightly to much shorter than outer, bifid-aristate. Flowers zygomorphic, white or cream-coloured to pale pink with darker veins, lower 3 tepals with median red streak or narrow yellow mark outlined with red, unscented; perianth tube cylindric or narrowly funnel-shaped, (30-)35-60(-65) mm long, slender and straight but curved outward and widening in upper 10-20 mm to 8-10 mm diam.; tepals obtuse, uppermost largest, often suberect, others spreading distally, dorsal obovate, 17-25 x 10-15 mm, remaining tepals oblanceolate, 13-20 x 5-8 mm, without calluses. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, (13-)15-18 mm long; anthers 5-7(-9) mm long, apiculate, purple; pollen purple. Style dividing shortly below or beyond anther apices, branches 4-7 mm long. Capsules obovoid, 7-10 mm long.