Rhizomatous or bulb with a distinct rhizomatous part. Petioles often sheathing and forming a false stem; leaf-blade lanceolate to ovate, glabrous, thin apart from midrib. Scape solid, lateral or apparently central among the leaves; involucral bracts 4–many, soon drooping and withering or erect and conspicuous at anthesis. Flowers many, regular, red to pink, with tube and free segments, usually erect and hypocrateriform, more rarely pendulous and infundibuliform; segments with±distinctglandular hairs at apex. Filaments from the base of the perianth-segments, filiform or flattened. Ovary globose, with 1–2 ovules per locule; style with undivided to minutely tricuspidate stigma. Fruit a globose berry, orange to red. Seeds 1–3, globose, with pale testa.
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