Plants small and relatively robust, 7-13 cm., usually flowering before the leaves.. Bulb often extended into a neck.. Leaves linear, 10-30 cm. long, 3-18 mm. wide.. Inflorescence a dense, subglobose raceme with 25-75 flowers; bracts broadly lanceolate, membranous and white (at least in herbarium specimens), ± 2 mm. long, with a pit in the middle; pedicels 5-11 mm. long, spreading.. Perianth-segments free or united up to 1.5 mm., white with a greenish or brownish abaxial band, 5-8 mm. long.. Filaments linear to triangular, free or united with the perianth-segments, free part 3-4 mm. long.. Ovary ovoid, 3-4 mm. long; style ± as long as the ovary.. Capsule subglobose, 5-12 mm. long, 4-11 mm. wide.. Seeds semicircular, 8-10 mm. long.
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