Bulb rhizomatous, ovoid to subglobose, 3–6 × 1.5–5 cm; basal plate 1.5–5 cm; neck 2–8 cm; tunic grayish brown. Leaves deciduous, 5–9, arching upward to suberect, 3.5–7.5(–8.5) dm × 2.5–6 cm, coriaceous; blade shiny green, oblanceolate, channeled proximally, distinctly wider beyond middle before tapering gradually towards base, not glaucous, apex acute. Scape 3.5–6.2 dm, 2-edged, glaucous; scape bracts 2–3, enclosing buds, 3–4(–6) × 1.5–2 cm; subtending floral bracts 2.8–3.7 cm × 10–15 mm. Flowers 2–8(–12), opening sequentially, highly fragrant; perianth tube green, 6–11 cm; tepals slightly ascending to spreading, white, tinged green on keel and at base, 8–12 cm × 5–9 mm; corona white with small, yellowish green eye, funnelform, gradually spreading, shortly tubulose proximally, 2.5–4(–4.6) × 4–5.5 cm, margins between free portions of filaments irregularly 2-or 3-dentate, projections ranging from slight to prominent; free portions of filaments inserted on flat sinal base, suberect, white, 2.5–4 cm; anthers 1.5–2.5 cm, pollen golden; ovary ovoid, 1–1.5 cm × 5–10 mm, ovules 1–3 per locule; style green in distal 1/2, fading into white proximally, 13–19 cm. Capsules broadly conic to subglobose, 3–4 × 3 cm. Seeds obovoid to elongate, 2–3(–4) × 1.4–2.3 cm. 2n = 44.
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