Cyrtanthus

Deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs. Bulb often splitting into large clusters or producing bulbils. Leaves few to several, erect to spreading, sometimes twisted or spiralled, slender to strap-shaped, glabrous, often with a conspicuous midrib, present during or after flowering. Inflorescence 1-many-flowered, often lax; scape hollow or rarely solid, glabrous; spathe-valves 2-4, soon withering. Flowers regular to weakly irregular, erect to pendulous, red, orange, yellow or white; pedicels shorter than or equalling perigone. Tepals connate into a distinct tube; tube usually longer than segments, +/- dilated from base, often curved; segments equal or subequal. Stamens arising from throat or perigone tube; filaments in 2 series, usually free, rarely with bases expanded into a false corona; anthers dorsifixed, rarely pseudo-basifixed, versatile. Ovary subglobose; ovules many per locule; style +/- as long or longer than filaments; stigma shortly to distinctly 3-lobed. Capsule +/- ellipsoid, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds black, flattened, wrinkled, usually somewhat winged. x = 8.