Plants glabrous, flowering with the leaves. Leaves cordate, ovate or lanceolate, with or without a pseudopetiole, often spotted. Scapes 1-2 per plant. Inflorescence a spike or a raceme; bracts lacking. Flowers ± globular or shortly cylindrical. Perianth-segments united up to 2 mm., white, yellowish green or green, often persistent in fruit; apex of inner segments cucullate and often yellow. Filaments free or united at the base, or inserted at the top of the perianth-tube, flattened and triangular. Ovary sessile, with 1-2 basal ovules per locule; style slender and as long as the ovary. Capsule subglobose, with 1-2 seeds. Seeds globose to ovoid with a folded, black and shiny surface.
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