Struthiola striata, one of the roemenaggies

The long, hairless flower tubes of this Struthiola striata plant, photographed in September on Hoys Koppie in Hermanus, are creamy yellow. Their rounded white sepal lobes at the flower mouth are larger than the four yellow petal scales positioned on top of them.

The leaves are sessile on the pale creamy green stems that look young and finely hairy against the sunlight. The leaf shape is ovate with entire margins tapering to acute tips. Leaf margins turn up slightly, the surfaces finely hairy. Lower leaf surfaces are finely ridged.

The colloquial name, roemenaggie, defies translation. It suggests an onomatopoeic link to an Afrikaans local name for the plant, juffertjie-roer-by-die-nag (young-lady-move-at-night), if the first part juffertjie is dropped and (the diminutive) -gie is added at the end; plus a little euphemistic obfuscation. This name is shared among several members of the Struthiola genus (Manning, 2007).