Bulb ovoid, up to 16 cm in diameter (20 cm fide Mogg), up to 25 cm long including the 5 cm long neck, tunicated; outer tunics firmly chartaceous, brown, dry, striate, shiny, glabrous, and smooth. Leaves up to 15, but often fewer, biflabellately spreading, strap-shaped, often falcate, extremely variable in length and width, 0.5-7.5 cm wide, 2.5-115 cm long, striate, glabrous, smooth, green or sometimes glaucous, margins scarious and minutely erose. Scape 6-35 cm long, ancipitous, glabrous, smooth, erect, spreading and at length ascending. Umbel 3-56-flowered. Spathe-valves 3.5-8.5 cm long, 1.2-3.0 cm wide at the base, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, papery, conspicuously nerved; bracts filiform, obtuse, usually widened at the apex. Pedicels 0-6-6 cm long. Perianth varying from pink to pinkish copper-brown or carmine, at times with a median white line on the inner and the outer surface of the tepals, shiny, sweetly scented; tube cylindrical, very variable in length, 0.8-2.5 cm. long; lobes oblanceolate, obtuse, 2.8-5.5 cm long, about 0.5 cm wide, gradually spreading from the base and spirally recurved towards the apex. Stamens more or less erect, slightly spreading, much exserted from the tube; filaments filiform, 3-4.5 cm long, carmine; anthers 5-7 mm long, strongly curved. Ovary about 6-12 mm long, cylindric or barrel-shaped, slightly wider than the pedicel and the perianth-tube; ovules 6-29 per loculus; style filiform, carmine, exserted 3.5-5.5 cm beyond the perianth-tube. Fruit subglobose, about 2-5 cm in diameter. Seeds subglobose or somewhat bluntly angled by pressure, up to about 1.5 cm in diameter, often germinating while still enclosed in the fruit.
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Geophyte, up to 300 mm high. Bulb ovoid, up to 160 mm in diameter, up to 250 mm long. Leaves with blade strap-like, 400 x 50 mm, falcate. Flowers: umbel 3-56-flowered; pedicels as long as or longer than perianth tube, 40-50 mm long; perianth with tube 20 mm long, apices of lobes spirally recurved, 55 x 7 mm, pink to pinkish copper-brown; Oct.-Dec. Fruit an indehiscent, papery capsule.
Perennial geophyte, up to 0.35 m high. Leaves ± 15, flat, ± curved sideways, strapshaped, 5-75 mm wide, shortly fringed, apex truncate. Flowers 3-56, in an evenly spreading, 150-200 mm wide cluster, trumpet-shaped, pale to deep pink, sweetly scented; perianth tube 8-25 mm long, segments 28-55 mm long; stamens evenly spreading, ± as long as style. Flowering time Nov.-Feb.
Geophyte, up to 300 mm tall. Bulb ovoid, up to 160 mm in diameter, up to 250 mm long. Pedicels as long as, or longer than perianth tube. Apex of perianth lobes spirally recurved. Leaves strap-like, falcate. Umbel 3-56-flowered. Flowers pink to pinkish copper-brown.
Bulbous geophyte, 25-35 cm. Leaves ± 15, distichous, trailing, strap-shaped, falcate with truncate apex. Flowers 3-55, in a rounded cluster, widely funnel-shaped, pink to red, sweetly scented, pedicels remaining short when fruiting.
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