Citation: Sweet, Brit. Flower-gdn t. 150 (1826).

Derivation: After W. Synnot, a collector at the Cape of Good Hope.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small deciduous perennial herbs, dormant in summer; corm globose, with a fibrous tunic; leaves several, basal, equitant, flat, oblanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous.

Scape erect, terete, wiry, simple or few-branched; spike loose, distichous, few-flowered; flowers sessile, zygomorphic, bilabiate, solitary in each spathe; bracts paired, subequal, lacerate at the apex, scarious; perianth tube curved, funnel-shaped; lobes unequal, shorter than the tube; stamens inserted on the tube, free, unilateral under the dorsal lobe; style branches 3, entire, short, spathulate.

Capsule obovoid, membranous; seeds several, globose, smooth. (G. J. Lewis (1956)Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 40:137-151.)

Distribution:  5 species native to the south-western Cape Province, South Africa; 1 of them is a garden escape in Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available