Subscapose herbs from a rather short vertical rhizome, producing numerous fleshy, frequently tuberiferous roots; leaves chiefly in a basal rosette, those of the flowering scape remote and greatly reduced, narrowly lanceolate or ensiform, parallel-veined; inflorescence terminating the flowering scape, paniculately branched or infrequently simple and racemiform; flowers solitary or fasciculate; perianth segments 6, free, essentially equal; stamens 6, the anthers strongly connate at an-thesis, sagittate; pistil 3-celled, the style simple, the stigma subcapitate; fruit a 3-to several-seeded loculi-cidal capsule.
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