Bulb ovoid-globose, 1.5--2 cm in diam.; outer tunic gray, quickly lost; inner layers milk white, subpapery, entire. Leaves 2 or 3, glaucous, broadly linear, much shorter than scape, 1--1.5(--2) cm wide, margin dark green or whitish red, papillose-denticulate, apex gradually attenuate. Scape 20--30(--40) cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 2(or 3)-valved, laciniate, partly persistent, apex acuminate. Umbel hemispheric, many flowered. Pedicels ca. 3 × as long than perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth stellate, recurved and withered after anthesis, white; segments with green or purple-violet, fine midvein, narrowly elliptic, 4.5--5 × 1.5--2 mm, apex subacute. Filaments subequaling perianth segments, connate and adnate to perianth segments, base broadened; inner ones nearly 2 × as wide as outer. Ovary ovoid, without concave nectaries at base; ovules 4--6 per locule. Fl. May. 2 n = 16.
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