Perennial, geophytic herb, stems usually unbranched, 300-410 mm high. Leaves linear-filiform, 50-85 x 0.5-1.1 mm, glabrous, apex acute, margins minutely ciliate-denticulate. Inflorescences 6-15-flowered umbels; peduncles 12-32 mm long. Flowers subglobose-campanulate; tube 2.0-2.6 x 2.8 mm, constricted at mouth, lower surface glabrous, densely bearded in mouth and throat with upper hairs converging to the center, lowers hairs deflexed; lobes oblong-ovate, 2.0-3.1 x 1.5-2.1 mm, both surfaces glabrous. Corona: lobes triangular-ovate with a minute tooth on either side at base, apex subulate or filiform, connivent over style apex with erect apex.
Herb, 300-410 mm tall. Umbels 2 or 3, racemosely arranged, 6-15-flowered. Corolla lobes glabrous inside; tube densely bearded with hairs in mouth and throat. Corona lobes longer than and incurved or connivent over staminal column. Flowers greenish with red.