Bulb globose, 2.5 cm in diam. with dark brown tunics, produced into a neck up to 3 cm long. Leaves usually two, attaining their full length after flowering, linear, acute, flatly channeled, 16-28 cm long, 4-10 mm broad. Peduncle erect, terete, 12-15 cm long, green or brown, purple at the base. Spathe-valves 2, membranous, up to 4 cm long. Pedicels slender, up to 2 cm long. Flowers 6-8 in an umbel; perianth trumpet-shaped from a slender base, slightly curved, 4.5-5 cm long, up to 2.5 cm wide across the lobes, rose-scarlet or the face of the limb incarnate; tube 3.5-3.75 cm long, dilated gradually to the throat 1 cm wide; lobes spreading, more or less oblong-elliptic, obtuse with a minute apiculus, 1-1.2 cm long. Stamens biseriate, inserted within the mouth of the perianth; filaments 3-4 mm long. Style exserted about 1 cm beyond the tube, trifid.
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