Watsonia zeyheri L.Bolus

Plants (150-)350-800 mm high. Corm depressed-globose, 18-25 mm diam.; tunics finely netted. Stem simple or with 2 to 4 short, erect branches. Leaves ± 4, lower 3 ± basal, upper leaves partly sheathing stem, ± half as long as spike, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 12-18 mm wide, midrib and margins thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 2, sheathing, 60-90 mm long. Spike (3)9-to 14-flowered; bracts green, often reddish above, dry and brown on upper margins for ± 1 mm, (10-)14-18 mm long, inner 2/3 to as long, forked apically for 2-4 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, orange or salmon-pink; tepals with darker median streak in lower midline; perianth tube with lower part 15-18 mm long, emerging up to 10 mm from bracts, upper part ascending, subcylindric, 16-20 mm long, ± 5 mm diam. at mouth; tepals oblanceolate, 20-22 x 9-11 mm, all spreading wide. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 25-33 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers ± 7 mm long, violet. Style dividing near middle of anthers, branches ± 5 mm long. Capsules oblong-fusiform, 20-24 x 5-6 mm. Seeds nearly linear, 10-12 x 1.5-2.0 mm, 2-winged.