The genus Bulbinella includes 18 species occurring in the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa and an additional six species from the main islands of New Zealand. All the species have attractive orange, yellow, cream or white flowers in dense, unbranched racemes. They are tufted deciduous perennials growing solitary or forming clumps. The rootstock is a compact rhizome surrounded by membranous cataphylls and often persistent fibrous leaf bases. The roots are somewhat fleshy. Mainly they flower in late winter, spring and summer. Bulbinella flowers are colourful and long-lasting in the vase. All the species are recommended as cut flowers.

Bulbinella latifolia subsp. doleritica is a South African endemic species. Bulbinella latifolia subsp. doleritica is a rare species from the Bokkeveld plateau and occurs in the vicinity of the internationally famous Bulb capital of the world, Nieuwoudtville in the southwestern Northern Cape. Plants are up to 1m high with numerous thickened roots and with a medium-thick fibrous neck up to 150 mm long. There are usually between 5 and 10 leaves, with the largest up to 550 mm long and 65 mm wide. They are bright green, fleshy, shallowly channelled and with smooth margins. Inflorescence is a dense raceme with up to 500 flowers, conical in bud and flower, up to 250 mm long 0 mm wide, becoming cylindrical in fruit. Flowers are star-shaped, 910 mm in diameter, pedicels 20 mm long. Flowers of this subspecies are dark reddish orange with yellow stamens, ovary and style.