Slender bulbous plants, with linear to strap-shaped leaves with entire apices produced with or after the flowers. Scape hollow, with 1–few-flowered inflorescences (in East Africa) subtended by 2 free bracts. Flowers tubular (not in East Africa) to funnel-shaped, regular to slightly irregular, suberect, nodding. Stamens inserted in the perianth-tube, with filiform filaments and versatile anthers. Ovary 3-locular, with many superposed ovules in 2 rows in each locule; style distinctly 3-lobed. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds many, black, flattened, with a wing.
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