Citation: Vent., Dec. Gen. Nov. 5 (1808).

Derivation: Greek homereo, I meet together; referring to the connate filaments and often connivent anthers of the stamens.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Deciduous perennial herbs, dormant in summer; corm globose, pointed above, with a hard tunic; leaves one to few, basal and near-basal, lax, tough, linear, channelled, with a sheathing base; stem erect, terete, often with branches subtended by reduced sheathing acuminate stem bracts.

Inflorescence cymose, with herbaceous spathes; flowers 2-4 between paired closely sheathing spathe bracts, pedicellate, fugacious, actinomorphic; perianth-segments free, subequal, shortly clawed at the base; filaments completely connate in a tube around the style; anthers basifixed, linear, appressed to the style branches; style 3-fid above the filament tube; branches flattened, either cuneate with minute 2-lobed crests exceeding the broad stigmas, or 2-lobed with minute terminal stigmas.

Capsules narrowly cylindrical, exserted from the spathe; seeds numerous, brown, angular.

Distribution:  (P. Goldblatt (1981) Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. 68:413-503.) 31 species in southern Africa; several have been cultivated as ornamentals, about 3 are naturalised in Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Leaves 2 or 3; bulbils produced in the axils	H. miniata 2.
1. Leaf solitary; bulbils absent
2. Stem bracts 2-5 cm long; style crests triangular, c. 1 mm long	H. flaccida 1.
2. Stem bracts 6-7 cm long; style crests absent or vestigial	H. ochroleuca 3.

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