Watsonia mtamvunae Goldblatt

Plants 300-450 mm high. Corm subglobose, 12-16 mm diam.; tunics finely netted, extended into a fibrous collar. Stem erect, simple. Leaves 3 to 5, sometimes dry and broken at flowering, ± basal, ± as long as spike, linear, 3-4 mm wide, midrib and margins thickened and hyaline, uppermost leaf sometimes short and partly sheathing stem; bract-like cauline leaves 2 to 4, distant. Spike 2-to 12(14)-flowered; bracts dry and brown above or throughout, often flushed purple below, 12-16(-25) mm long, clasping stem in lower half, overlapping, 2 internodes long, inner shorter and concealed, deeply forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, pale pink; perianth tube with lower part 10-12 mm long, included or barely emerging from bracts, upper part horizontal and funnel-shaped, 7-9 mm long, ± 6 mm diam. at mouth; tepals spreading outward, obovate, 14-16 x 5-7 mm. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 7-10 mm long, included in tube; anthers 7 mm long, pale yellow. Style arching over stamens, dividing near anther apices, branches 3-4 mm long. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 7-9 mm long. Seeds angular-elongate, 3.0-3.5 x 1.3 mm.