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Information Plants (12-)20-60 cm. high. Corms globose, 1-1.4 cm. in diameter, tunics of fine pale reticulate fibres. Foliage leaves several, narrowly lanceolate, usually reaching to the base of the spike but sometimes exceeding it, (6-)8-12 mm. wide. Stem erect, simple or with 2-4 branches. spike 2-6-flowered; outer bracts 1-1.5 cm. long, green, becoming membranous to dry above, usually dark brown apically, inner bracts smaller than the outer and bifid. Flowers zygomorphic, red (rarely pink), the lower 3 tepals each with a darker red mark at the base; perianth-tube erect, campanulate, slender below, broad and cupped above, 2-3 cm. long, the upper part, ± 4 mm.; tepals unequal, lanceolate, the upper erect, 2.2-3(-3.5) cm. long, the lower 3 ascending to nearly horizontal, 2.1-2.6 cm. long. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, exserted for (1-)1.5-2 cm.; anthers 5.5-8 mm. long. Style dividing between the middle and apex of the anthers, the branches 4-6 mm. long, deeply forked, arched over the anthers. Capsules 8-10 mm. long, 7-8 mm. wide, smooth to irregularly papillate. Fig. 8/1-4.

Information corm globose, 1/2 in. diam.; tunics brown, finely fibrous; leaves 4–8 in a distichous basal tuft, linear, erect, a foot or more long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad; stem simple, terete, as long as the leaves; flowers 4–6 in a lax spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, green, 1/2 in. long, much exceeding the inner; perianth-tube pale, subcylindrical, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, bright scarlet, as long as the tube, the three lower with a darker blotch at the base; stamens as long as the segments. null

Information Corm globose, 3/4 in. diam; tunics of fine parallel fibres. Produced leaves 6–8 in a rosette, linear, thin, erect, glabrous, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle 1 ft. long, terete, simple or once forked; flowers 3–6 in a lax spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, submembranous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, much exceeding the inner. Perianth bright scarlet; tube cylindrical, erect, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, the three lower with a dark blotch. Stamen and style as long as the perianth-segments. Capsule globose, 1/3 in. diam.

Information Plants (12)20–60 cm high. Corms 1–1.4 cm in diameter, globose; tunics of fine pale reticulate fibres. Foliage leaves several, usually reaching to the base of the spike but sometimes exceeding it, (6)8–12 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate. Stem erect, unbranched or 2–4-branched. Spike 2–6-flowered; outer bracts 10–15 mm long, green, becoming membranous to dry above, sometimes brown apically; inner bracts smaller than the outer, bifid. Flowers zygomorphic, red (pink), the lower 3 tepals each with a darker-red mark at the base; perianth tube erect, 20–30 mm long, campanulate, slender below, broad and cup-shaped above, the upper part, c. 4 mm long; tepals unequal, lanceolate, the upper 22–30(35) mm long, erect, the lower three 21–26 mm long, ascending to nearly horizontal. Stamens unilateral and arcuate, 15–25 mm long, exserted for (10)15–20 mm; anthers 5.5–8 mm long. Style branching between the middle and apex of the anthers, style branches 4–6 mm long, deeply forked, arched over the anthers. Capsules 8–10 mm long, 7–8 mm wide, smooth to irregularly papillate. Seeds nearly globose, c. 3 mm long, orange to dark-red, glossy.

Information Herbs, perennial, rarely annual [or shrubs with woody caudex], evergreen or seasonal, sometimes cespitose; rootstock a rhizome, bulb, or corm. Flowering stems aerial (or subterranean in Romulea), simple or branched, terete or variously compressed, angled or winged. Leaves basal and cauline, distichous; proximal 2–3 sometimes membranous, not reaching much above ground; others with open or closed sheaths, usually unifacial [bifacial or terete], oriented edgewise to the stem; blade parallel-veined, plane or pleated, channeled. Inflorescences umbellate, monochasial cymes (rhipidia), spikes, or solitary flowers; rhipidia enclosed in 2, opposed, usually large, leafy to dry bracts (spathes); flowers except for the first subtended by 1 floral bract; spike flowers each subtended by 2, opposed bracts. Flowers usually pedicellate [± sessile]; per-ianth actinomorphic or zygomorphic, petaloid, with 2 equal or unequal whorls of 3 tepals each [1 whorl of 6]; tepals usually large, showy, distinct or connate in tube; stamens 3 [2], inserted at base of outer tepals or in tube, symmetrically arranged or unilateral, arcuate [declinate]; filaments distinct or partly to completely connate, sometimes weak, unable to support anthers; anthers with 2 pollen sacs, extrorse, occasionally latrorse, usually dehiscing longitudinally [rarely apically]; ovary inferior [superior in Tasmanian Isophysis], 3-locular [1-locular]; placentation axile [parietal]; ovules 2–few, anatropous; style single, filiform at least proximally, usually 3-branched or 3-lobed, branches either filiform, distally expanded, sometimes each divided in distal 1/2, stigmatic toward apices, or branches thickened, or flattened, petaloid, stigmas then abaxial below apices. Fruits capsular, loculicidal, rarely indehiscent, firm to cartilaginous, occasionally woody. Seeds globose to angular (prismatic) or discoid, sometimes broadly winged; seed coat usually dry (rarely fleshy); endosperm hard, with reserves of hemicellulose, oil, and protein; embryo small.