Chlorophytum nepalense (Lindl.) Baker

Rhizome short, inconspicuous. Roots 1--2 mm thick, slightly thickened. Leaves fasciculate, sessile or slightly narrowed and petiolelike basally, linear to sublanceolate, 8--60 × 0.6--2(--5) cm, glabrous. Scape erect, 30--60(--90) cm. Raceme sometimes few branched and paniculate, many flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than flowers. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3; pedicel ca. 1 cm, articulate near middle or distally. Tepals white, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 1--1.4 cm × 2--3 mm. Stamens slightly shorter than tepals; anthers usually longer than filaments. Capsule obovoid, rarely subglobose, 6--9 mm; seeds several per valve. Fl. and fr. Jul--Sep. 2 n = 42, 56.

A tropical and subtropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 1400-2500 m altitude. It grows in moist, shady places. In S China it grows in rocky places along valleys between 1300-2800 m altitude.

The tender leaves are cooked as a vegetable. They are boiled. The flowering shoots are eaten fried.

Plants are grown from seed or bulbs.