Romulea pudica leaves

The two to four basal leaves grown by Romulea pudica are long, thin, grooved and quill- to needle-like. The leaves become taller than the inflorescence.

The flowers grow solitary, each at the tip of its own inflorescence branch. Triangular green bracts shaped as narrow, isosceles triangles, small-angled at the apex, subtend the flower. The bracts overlap at the base, consecutively sheathed, their margins whitish and possibly transparent.

The black and yellow pattern inside the base of the funnel-shaped perianth and its short tube is visible on the outside but dull through the translucent and partly transparent tepals (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist; www.pacificbulbsociety.org).