Tufted perennials; bulb tunicate. Scape hollow. Leaves all basal, linear to lorate. Flowers campanulate, nodding, solitary or several in an umbel; tube 0; segments connate at base only; spathe 1-2-valved. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds many. Spp. c. 12, Middle and S. Europe, N. Africa. Adventive sp. 1.