Albuca setosa budding

This bud of Albuca setosa is about to open, facing upwards as the open flower will remain. Oval to elliptic tepals curve in, in picture no longer completely, allowing some yellow colouring from the inner tepal tips to show. The white tepal outside surfaces have dark green longitudinal, and in this case erect bands along the centre of each.

The raceme of flowers is only about 15 cm to 20 cm long and flat-topped. The flower perianth is about 1,5 cm in length. Flowering happens from spring to midsummer.

The plant was found in the Mkhomazi Wilderness Area in KwaZulu-Natal during January (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist; iSpot; JSTOR).