Raphionacme grandiflora N. E. Br.

grandiflora: large flowered

Erect perennial herb, up to c. 30 cm tall, growing from a more or less depressed tuber, up to 12 cm in diameter. Milky latex present. Leaves very shortly petiolate, opposite, linear-lanceolate to narrowly obovate, up to 12 cm long, roughly hairy on both surfaces, veining prominent below; margin entire but wavy. Inflorescence a 2-7-flowered, terminal, pseudo-umbel. Corolla up to 3 cm in diameter, pale yellowish-green on the outside, bright to deep violet on the inside; lobes often strongly deflexed in older flowers, with margins recurved. Fruit often a single, erect follicle, linear-cylindrical, c. 17 × 1 cm, hairless.

Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe