*Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis * 3: 17, t. 28 (1777)
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Origin
Introduced
Degree of establishment
Adventive
Plants tufted, bulbous, 20–80 cm high. Roots fibrous. Leaves loblong to linear, flat or concave, 15–30 cm long, to 5 cm wide, often withering before flowering time. Inflorescence erect, in a subcorymbose or cylindric raceme, exceeding leaves. Flowers 10–60, cup-shaped; bracts lanceolate; flowering pedicels to 1–4 cm long; perianth segments 14–30 mm long, not widely spreading, white, pigmented at base, unstriped; stamens opposite petals with filaments broadened at base and appendaged; ovary dark purplish. Capsule ovoid, slightly 3-ridged. Late Spring
GipP. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW. Native to South Africa. Sparingly established at Maffra cemetery.
