1Flowers red often greenish on lower portions; small perianth lobes less than 8 mm long, arising from the same pointChasmanthe bicolor
1Flowers red-orange, often yellowish; small perianth lobes usually more than 8 mm long, small upper lobes lobes arising 3–7 mm beyond the lower ones2
2Inflorescence distichous, 20–30-flowered; floral tube gradually widening from the narrow portion with a single indistinct pouchChasmanthe floribunda
2Inflorescence secund, 7–15-flowered; floral tube abruptly widening from narrow to wide portion, distinctly 3-pouched at the junctionChasmanthe aethiopica
