Tritonia tugwelliae L.Bolus

Plants 100-150(-200) mm high. Corm conical, 10-25 mm diam.; tunics of fine to coarse fibres. Stem suberect, simple or up to 3-branched. Leaves 6 to 8, lanceolate-falcate, 50-100 x (3-)5-10(-12) mm, acute or acuminate, margins undulate or crisped, cauline leaves smaller and often dry and bract-like. Spike sharply deflexed, horizontal, secund, densely 5-to 15-flowered; bracts small, dry and membranous, translucent or pale brown, lightly speckled in upper 1/2, outer 3-8 mm long, obtuse, acute or obscurely 3-toothed, inner slightly shorter, bifid. Flowers zygomorphic, suberect, white with red streaks in throat and small red or purple dot on lower 3 or only lower median tepal, unscented; perianth tube ± cylindric, curved outward above, (20-)25-30 mm long, widening gradually in upper 5 mm to ± 3 mm diam. and laterally compressed; tepals unequal, upper 3 largest, dorsal spreading and upper laterals reflexed, oblong-spathulate, 7-9 x 3-4 mm, lower 3 spreading, oblong, 6-8 x 2-3 mm, without calluses. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 5-7 mm long, enclosed by upper part of gullet, scarcely exserted; anthers ± 3 mm long, lilac; pollen purple. Style dividing at or shortly beyond anther apices, branches 1.5-2.0 mm long.