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Perennial geophyte, 0.1-0.4 m high; outer bulb tunics brown. Leaves (2)3(5), linear to lanceolate, 80-250 mm long, often dry at flowering, glabrous or with long hairs along margins near base, reddish below, forming a papery neck (cataphyll. Inflorescence a subspicate raceme as long as peduncle; pedicels 1-6 mm long. Flowers: white or pinkish with dark keels; tepals 5-10 mm long. Stamens: filaments linear, inner ones ovate-acuminate. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Fruit an ovoid capsule, 9 mm long.
Geophyte, up to 300 mm high. Bulb globose, 15-30 mm in diameter. Leaves up to 6, often dry at flowering; blade narrowly ovate to linear-acuminate, 8-12 mm broad, erect, sometimes hairy, reddish below; leaf sheaths often purplish, brittle, soon breaking up horizontally. Flowers: usually in a narrow, spike-like raceme; perianth white, dull yellow or pale pink; Dec.-Mar. Fruit an ovoid capsule.
Bulbous geophyte, 100-300 mm tall, tunics brownish. Leaves often dry at flowering, sheathing below and forming a papery neck, linear, sometimes hairy, margins ciliate. Flowers suberect in a spike-like raceme on pedicels up to 6 mm long, white, dull yellow or pale pink, tepals narrow, 5-10 mm long, filaments linear-lanceolate.
Bulbous geophyte, 10-30 cm. Leaves often dry at flowering, linear, sometimes hairy, reddish below and forming a papery neck. Flowers usually in a narrow, spike-like raceme, white, dull yellow or pale pink, only a few open at a time.
