Flora of New Zealand Series

Tufted, to 60 cm high. Corm ± 2.5 cm diam., tunic of very fine matted fibres. Leaves < stems, to 1.5 cm wide, curved, narrow- to broad-ensiform. Inflorescence simple or branched, ¼-⅔ plant-height; spathe-valves 1-1.5 cm long, green with brown dentate tips, later straw-coloured below. Flowers to 15, ± 5 cm long, ± 5 cm diam., bright orange with orange veins, bright pink, or reddish with purplish veins; tube narrow-cylindrical below, funnel-shaped above; lobes ± twice length of tube, spreading. Capsule not seen.

N. Auckland City. Garden escape on grass banks or in waste land.

(S. Africa)

First record: ‡

First collection: Onehunga, Auckland, wild in waste land, A. E. Esler and S. J. Astridge 3437, 1.11.1971 (CHR 225458).

FL. (10) -11-12.