Description :

• Small, umbraticolous geophytes
• Corms asymmetrical, obovoid; young corms producing lateral basal bulges and tunics forming a fold at base from which roots emerge fan-wise
• Stem with a basal neck covered by sheaths, simple above
• Leaves 3: basal one spreading, linear, with sheathing part gaping above, second leaf smaller, opposite, and third leaf bract-like below lowest flower of spike
• Flowers 1-3
• Perianth : segments narrowly linear-ovate, aristate, auriculate above claw, persistent, reflexed in fruit
• Stamens arising on claw, short, dorsifixed, introrse
• Ovary ovoid; ovules several; styles 3, long, arising laterally on truncate ovary lobes; stigmas apical, minute
• Capsule trigonous, with apical flat part of locules diverging in fruit, bearing persistent incurved, pointed style bases on outside
• Seeds globose, lenticular

Nomenclature:

• Neodregea C.H.Wright
  • Wright: 308 (1909)
  • Hooker: t. 2931 (1913)
  • Garside: 292 (1935)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 1: Neodregea glassii C.H.Wright, from Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape) to Somerset West (Western Cape)