Raphionacme utilis N. E. Br. & Stapf

Erect perennial herb, up to 10 cm high, growing from a broadly sub-spherical to spindle-shaped tuber, 50-150 cm in diameter. Stems, 1-few, 80 cm long, erect, brownish. Leaves rosette-like, spreading, subsessile to petiolate, ovate-elliptic or obovate, up to 8.5 × 4 cm long, dark green above, hairless or pubescent, purplish below; margin wavy; petiole 0-10 mm long. Flowers mostly only terminal, more or less open inflorescence. Corolla lobes oblong-ovate, 6 × 2 mm, green to green-violet. Corona whitish, hairless or papillose; lobes 3-segmented; central segment 5-6 mm long, linear-filiform; lateral segments fused to form a coronal annulus. Fruit in horizontally spreading, paired follicles or single, narrowly ovoid, 40 × 8 mm.

Angola, Cameroon, DRC and Zimbabwe. Apparently introduced in Mozambique.