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Leaves 3–5 on flowering stem, short and sheathing for most of their length, obscurely to obviously white pubescent, imbricate, usually at least 2 with short blades to 8 cm long; blades more or less linear, the margins and midrib thickened (well developed foliage leaves which are produced from separate shoots after flowering are not known and are probably not produced).
Stem unbranched, sheathed except for a short distance below the spike, often with a short membranous sheathing leaf inserted on the upper third of the stem just above the uppermost sheathing leaf.
Spike 6–14(20)-flowered; bracts green below, dry and light-brown above, 13–20(25) mm long, sometimes sparsely pubescent above, the inner about as long as or only slightly shorter than the outer.
Filaments c. 20 mm long, reaching to about the middle of the uppermost tepal; anthers c. 7 mm long, reaching nearly to the apex of the uppermost tepal or barely exceeding it.
Style dividing opposite the upper half of the anthers, style branches 3–3.5 mm long, ultimately reaching the anther apices.
Corms 16–20 mm in diameter; tunics firmly membranous to papery, fragmenting irregularly into mostly vertical strips.
Capsules 10–16 mm long, broadly ovoid.
Plants 30–100 cm high.
