Perennial herb, geophytes, 200-300 mm high; corm globose, base oblique, with small downward projections, tunics woody, notched below into segments; stem simple or 1-branched, bearing bulbils in leaf axils. Leaves 3-5, linear to slightly falcate. Bracts herbaceous, margins hyaline, acute. Inflorescence a 2-6-flowered spike, slightly flexuose; perianth tube 9-15 mm long, recurving; tepals subequal, outspread when open, elliptic, obtuse. Stamens: filaments 6-7 mm long; anthers articulated, usually pendent. Ovary 3-4 mm long; style branches pendent. Flowering time May-Oct. Capsule ovoid.
Cormous herb. Stems trailing, up to 300 mm long. Plants bearing a cormlet in axil of 1 to several stem nodes. Perianth tube 9-15 mm long, recurved, shorter than bracts and emerging between them. Flowers pale creamy white, tinged with lilac or pink.