Paintbrush Lily

puniceus: scarlet, carmine (though the flowers are actually often orange-red)

Perennial herb, growing from a bulb, often suckering to form small colonies. Leaves in a basal rosette, developing with or after the flowers. Inflorescence not spherical, surrounded by large leaf-like bracts, longer than the flowers. Flowers with filiform segments, orange-red. Distinguished from S. multiflorus by the large bracts, the more flattened inflorescence and the orange-red colour of the flowers.

Rare

In Zimbabwe it is only recorded from the Matobo area but it is more common in parts of South Africa as well as in parts of Tanzania and Kenya.