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Bulbs ovoid, 4–6 × 3–5 cm, tunic pale to dark brown. Leaves 4; blade flat, 25–35 cm × 8–15(–20) mm, glaucous. Inflorescences umbellate, 5–15-flowered, 25–35 cm; spathe pale brown, 4–6 cm, papery. Flowers strongly fragrant; perianth 2–4 cm wide; perianth tube 1.5–2 cm, gradually tapering to base; distinct portions of tepals spreading to reflexed, white to cream, linear-ovate to oblanceolate, 1–2 × 0.5–1 cm, apex acute; corona yellow, cup-shaped, 3–5 × 5–10 mm, apex crenulate to ruffled; 3 shorter stamens included within perianth tube, 3 longer stamens and style exserted into mouth of corona; pedicel of variable length, to 8 cm. 2n = 22.
Scape c. 30 cm high, compressed. Leaves glaucous, ± channelled. Flowers 4-8-(20) per scape, usually fragrant, oblique, horizontal or nodding; pedicels long; tube narrow-cylindric, greenish; lobes < tube, white; corona ¼-½ length of lobes, cup-shaped, lemon-yellow or orange, margin entire.
A bulb herb. The leaves and flowers arise from the bulb. The leaves are strap like. There is a single flowering stalk.
Umbel 3-20-flowered; perigone whitish.
