Bulb readily forming bulblets, narrowly to broadly ovoid, strongly compressed laterally, 45-80 mm across; tunics fleshly, imbricate, distichous with oblique margins, loose, cream-coloured, turning pink if exposed to light; basal disc sometimes well-developed. Leaves 2, rarely 3, recurved to prostrate, appearing after the inflorescence; blade ligulate to oblong, 100-200 mm long, (10-)15-35(-60) mm wide at the middle, flat; adaxial surface light green, covered with white patent hairs; abaxial surface light green, unmarked or with a little red spotting at the base, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent with long soft hairs; margin ciliate, sometimes red; apex acute to obtuse. Peduncle slender to stout, 40-280 mm long, 5-13 mm across greatest diam., red or occasionally pink, unmarked or occasionally with darker markings, glabrous or sometimes pubescent. Umbel compact, broadly to narrowly obconical or inversely campanulate, 25-60(-125) mm across near the top. Spathe valves 4-5(-7), erect, as long as or much longer than the flowers, lanceolate or broadly to narrowly obovate or spathulate, with a distinct point at the apex, (25-)30-80(-90) mm long, (7-)10-30 mm broad in the upper half, red, rarely pink, stiff and fleshy, waxy, occasionally ciliate on the margins. Flowers 4-60, scarlet or rarely pink, with white tubes and tips. Pedicels 1-3(-13) mm long, white to reddish. Perianth 10-30 mm long; tube 2-5 mm long, distinctly gibbose at the base of each segment; segments erect, linear to narrowly oblong, 13-26 mm long, 0.75-2 mm broad; tips obtuse. Filaments exserted by up to 12 mm, scarlet with white tips. Anthers 1-2 mm long when open, yellow. Ovary subglobose, 2-3 mm diam., light green. Style about as long as the stamens. Berries large, globose, 16-22 mm diam., pale pink to white, soft and pulpy, in a tight cluster. Seeds spherical, about 5 mm diam., dark green to wine-red.
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