Watsonia humilis Mill.

Plants (100-)150-300 mm high. Corm subglobose, 10-20 mm diam.; tunics finely netted. Stem simple or rarely with 1 suberect branch. Leaves 5 or 6, lower 4 or 5 basal, uppermost partly or entirely sheathing stem, ± 1/2 as long as spike, lanceolate, 8-14 mm wide, midrib and margins not thickened; bract-like cauline leaves 1 or 2, sheathing. Spike 6-to 12-flowered; bracts herbaceous and green, sometimes reddish above, recurved apically, (15-)20-30 mm long, inner ± 2/3 as long, forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, white flushed pink with pink tube or pale to deep pink; perianth tube with lower part (13-)17-30 mm long, included to well exserted from bracts, upper part ascending or horizontal to slightly drooping, subcylindric, (13-)17-30 mm long, ± 5 mm diam. at mouth; tepals oblanceolate to obovate, 15-22 x 7-12 mm, all widely spreading. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, (10-)15-20(-22) mm long, not or barely exserted up to 5 mm from tube; anthers 5-7 mm long, dark blue or violet. Style dividing between middle and apex of anthers, branches 3-4 mm long. Capsules oblong, 15-20 mm long. Seeds 8-12 mm long, 2-winged with distal wing largest or proximal wing vestigial.