Bulb solitary, pyriform to globose, more or less round in cross section or slightly compressed laterally, 30-75 mm diam.; tunics unequal, imbricate, mostly with oblique margins or occasionally with horizontal margins, cream-coloured, the withered parts sometimes persisting as a brown covering. Leaves 2, rarely 3, either flat on ground or erect, appearing after the inflorescence; blade narrowly to broadly ligulate, 40-250 mm long, 10-40 mm wide, flat, firm-textured; both surfaces immaculate, with or without a reddish blush towards the base of the abaxial surface, glabrous; margin sometimes thickened, either green, yellowish-green or red, smooth or with short cartilaginous cilia; apex obtuse or subacute. Peduncle slender to stout, 50-200 mm long, 5-12 mm across greatest diam., creamy-pink to deep rose-pink or reddish-pink, immaculate, glabrous. Umbel widely obconical to spherical, 30-75 mm across. Spathe valves 4-5(-6), spreading apart, shorter than or as long as the flowers, triangular, (15-)20-38 mm long, 3-11 mm broad at the base, pale or deep pink, thin-textured, sometimes becoming mottled with age, tips acute. Flowers 15-40, pale or dark pink. Pedicels (8-)10-20(-23) mm long, pale or dark pink. Perianth (10-)12-14 mm long; tube 0.5-3 mm long, widening gradually upwards; segments slightly spreading, narrowly lanceolate, (6-)11-16 mm long, 0.75-3 mm broad; tips subacute. Filaments exserted by up to 7 mm, white to pink. Anthers 1-2 mm long when open, yellow. Ovary subglobose, about 2 mm diam., green to brownish-pink. Style as long as the stamens. Berries ovoid, about 7-12 mm across, deep pink. Seeds ovoid, about 5 mm diam.
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