Bulb solitary, globose, 7-18 mm diam., thinly covered with light greyish brown to cream-coloured fibrous outer tunics, whitish within; neck slender, up to 30(-60) mm long. Leaves usually well developed at anthesis, 3-6, but with only 1-6 exserted at a time, erect to recurved, linear, up to 200-300 x 0.75-1.5 mm, hemiterete, with the adaxial surface shallowly channelled, glabrous, shiny green, flushed with reddish brown at the base, subtended by a non-amplexicaul prophyll; cataphyll absent; seedlings glabrous. Inflorescence somewhat spreading, 10-50 mm across; scape slender, somewhat flexuose, 15-150(-250) mm long, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., reddish brown proximally, otherwise green, persisting or sometimes breaking loose in fruit; spathe valves linear-lanceolate, 7-20 x 0.25-2.0 mm; bracteoles up to 10 mm long, often not visible. Flowers 2-14, spreading, stellate, rarely somewhat campanulate, white to delicate pink, occasionally marked with several deep pink median dorsal lines, turning deep pink with age, scented; the innermost of the cymes often aborting; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, ultimately 10-35 mm long, green. Tepals free to the base, outspread, oblanceolate, (3.0-)3.5-6.0 x 1.5-2.0 mm. Stamens equalling the tepals, spreading, obliquely twisted before the anthers dehisce; filaments separate, up to 4 mm long, adnate to the base of the swollen style, laterally broadened and slightly raised ventrally forming a longitudinal ridge in the proximal third, tapering evenly upwards; anthers dorsifixed, 2 mm long before opening, dark wine-red; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with 1-4 ovules per locule. Style up to 5 mm long, dilated above the filaments into an irregular hexahedron with rounded corners (1-2 mm diam.) and an irregularly indented apical surface, slender in the distal half with 3 droplets of nectar held between the inner filaments and stylar swelling. Seeds 2-3 mm diam.
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