Crinum graminicola I.Verd.

Bulb more or less globose, 12-14 cm diam., abruptly narrowed into a neck 4-10 cm long. Leaves few, willow-green, broad, spreading at ground level, up to 14 cm broad, obviously ciliate with cartilaginous hairs. Peduncle arising laterally, arcuate ascending, up to 40 cm long, about 2.5 cm broad and 1.5 cm thick. Spathe-valves 7-11 cm long, up to 3 cm broad at the base, narrowing gradually towards the apex, not early withering and reflexing; bracteoles narrowly linear, up to 10 cm long. Umbels several to many flowered, 8-30 recorded. Pedicels subsessile or 0.5-2.5 cm long. Perianth with a curved tube, 7-11 cm long; segments broadly keeled with deep rose or almost entirely that colour, fading towards the margins, conniving into a funnel shape with only the apical portion recurved, about 9 cm long, the outer 1.5 cm broad just above the middle, inner 2.5 cm broad above the middle, apical peak 3-7 mm long, the reflexed true apex often papillate. Stamens declinate, filaments white or suffused with deep rose towards the apex. Style deep rose in the upturned apical portion. Capsule oblong to oblong-globose, bulging with seeds, beaked with the basal portion of the perianth tube. Seeds subglobose of irregular shape, about 2 cm diam.