Bulb nonrhizomatous, broadly ovoid, 4–7(–9) × 4.5–6.5(–8) cm; basal plate 1–3 cm; neck 4–6 cm; tunic grayish brown. Leaves deciduous, 3–9, erect, (2–)3–6.7 dm × (0.8–)1.5–3.2 cm, coriaceous; blade bluish green to deep green, narrowly liguliform, broadly channeled, margins hyaline, apex acute, glaucous to slightly glaucous, or not glaucous. Scape (3.5–)4.5–7.5 dm, suborbiculate, glaucous; scape bracts 2, not enclosing flower buds, 4.5–5.5 × 1–1.5 cm; subtending floral bracts 3.8–6.1 cm × 5–10 mm. Flowers 2(–3 rarely), opening sequentially, mildly fragrant; perianth tube green, robust, 6–10(–12) cm; tepals slightly ascending to long-spreading, greenish white, 8.8–16 cm × 4.5–9.5(–11) mm; corona white with faint green proximal eye, funnelform, gradually spreading in time, shortly tubulose proximally, 3–4 × 5–6 cm, margins between free portions of filaments irregularly dentate; free portions of filaments inserted on flat sinal base, slightly incurved, white, 2.8–4.5 cm; anthers 1.5–2.5 cm, pollen yellow; ovary oblong to pyriform, 1.5–3 cm × 10 mm, ovules 4–8 per locule; style green in distal 1/2, fading to white proximally, (13–)16–20 cm. Capsules subglobose, shortly beaked, 3.5–4.5 × 3–4 cm. Seeds obovoid, 1.5–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 cm. 2n = 38.
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