Bulbs slender, 40–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. Leaves 9–15 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. Scape 12–35 cm. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered. Flowers: tepals ± white, often pinkish, usually pale yellow at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–45 mm, inner with or without small auricles at base; stamens 11–17 mm; filaments linear, white or pinkish, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers white, cream, pink, reddish, or brownish red; style straight, white or pink, 6–10 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. Capsules obovoid, 2–5 cm. 2n = 24.