Description :

• Erect or scandent geophytes
• Corms small, bearing short spreading lobes covered with thin tunics
• Stems simple, striate, supple
• Leaves close together, alternate, clasping below, linear to narrowly ovate-acuminate; tip cirrhiferous or aristate
• Flowers cymose, on upper part of stem, placed beside a leaf on long, arcuate pedicels
• Perianth tubular, urceolate, pendulous, persistent, shortly 6-spurred at base; lobes short, triangular, recurved
• Stamens short, included; anthers 2-thecous, introrse, basifixed
• Ovary ovoid, obtusely trigonous; ovules many; styles 3, free; stigma apical
• Capsule obtusely ovoid, trisulcate, enclosed in perianth
• Seeds globose, verrucose, with large broad funicle
• x = 12

Nomenclature:

• Sandersonia Hook.
  • Hooker: t. 4716 (1853)
  • Baker 6: 526 (1897)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 1: Sandersonia aurantiaca Hook., Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape