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Herb flowering before the leaves emerge. Leaves 6-10, linear, channelled, 30-45 cm long, 15-30 mm wide. Umbel with 2-12 flowers; spathe valves deltoid; scape stout, 30-70 cm long, to c. 1 cm wide; pedicels 2-6 cm long; bracteoles filiform, c. 3 cm long. Perianth segments broadly lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, fused basally for c. 1 cm, white to bright pink. Stamens slightly shorter than perianth; filaments attached at rim of perianth tube, declinate; anthers crescent-shaped, 4-5 mm long. Style filiform, ±equal to sepals; stigma 1-2 mm wide. Fruit loculicidal or dehiscing irregularly, 1-2 cm diam. Seeds globose.
Stout perennial. Bulb large, 6-12 cm diam., ovoid or globose. Leaves 6-10, distichous, produced after flowers, 20-40 × 2-3 cm, lorate, channelled. Scape 40-70 cm high, reddish, subcompressed, solid. Spathe-valves 2, persistent. Umbels 2-10-flowered; pedicels 3-6 cm long at flowering. Flowers large, c. 10 cm long, c. 7 cm diam., fragrant, white to deep pink, paler in throat, funnel-shaped, flowering from a short tube c. 1 cm long; segments recurved, acute. Stamens slightly < perianth, alternately long and short. Stigma capitate. Capsule globose, bursting irregularly. Seeds many, fleshy, green.
Perennial geophyte, up to 0.9 m high. Leaves 5-11, dry at flowering, spreading to suberect, lanceolate, 15-75 mm wide, channelled, hairless, midrib prominent. Flowers 6-12, in a ± 1-sided or evenly spreading cluster, trumpet-shaped, white to pink, usually pale lemon at base, fragrant, segments 80-100 mm long; stamens and style declinate. Flowering time Feb.-Apr.
Bulbous geophyte to 90 cm. Leaves 5-11, dry or absent at flowering, rosulate, suberect, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, channelled, midrib prominent. Flowers usually 6-12, often turned to 1 side, large, trumpet-shaped, pink to white, throat usually pale lemon, fragrant.
Umbel 6-12-flowered; perigone dark red or pink to white.
