Dear Mary Sue, With apologies for the delay - I've been out of town and am just catching up with things. As you say, in her book, "Systematics of Hessea, Strumaria and Carpolyza", Snijman identifies two subspecies. The first, subspecies bulbifera, is found in the dolerite koppies around Nieuwoudtville. It is "densely clump-forming", as indicated in Dylan's note, and has "..a pronounced discoid stylar swelling with an irregular frilly rim". It is illustrated on page 112, which clearly indicates the nature of that rim. The left hand photograph of Leo's plant on the WIKI has that stylar construction and so fits the description. The other, subspecies discifera, is found to the east of Nieuwoudtville through to Middlepos, in "..scattered aggregations of solitary bulbs", again echoing Dylan. It has a disc-like stylar swelling "..but these are not as broad..and lack a prominent rim. Elsewhere the stylar swelling tends to be bulbiform.." Again, it is illustrated well on page 111. On the subject of Merendera versus Colchicum, Persson's view has been accepted by Kew - see http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Best regards, David Victor