Ornithogalum anguinum F.M.Leight. ex Oberm.

Plants 0.1-0.3 m tall. Bulb globose, 20-30 mm in diam. with brown tunics forming a short neck. Leaf 1, narrowly linear, up 0.3 m long, 2-6 mm wide, smooth, flaccid, surrounded at the base by tubular bladeless cataphylls with transverse dark ridges, apex acute. Raceme on a long thin sinuous peduncle; bracts small auriculate, acute, membranous; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. Perianth-segments free, narrowly ovate, c. 8 mm, white. Stamens with outer filaments slightly widened below, inner ovate-acuminate. Ovary globose, sessile; ovules c. 8 in each locule; style terete, longer than ovary, with 3 triangular papillate stigmatic lobes. Capsule globose, 8 mm, with thin walls; seeds cuneate, many-angled, 2-3 mm, colliculate.