Rootstock small; roots fibrous. Leaves perennial, c. 10-50, narrowly linear, striate, stiff, 10-21 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, with patent to ascending hairs on adaxial surface. Scapes 1-5, usually simple, 30-41 cm long, striate, with stiff, patent hairs shorter than those on leaves; umbels 4-or 5-flowered; pedicels 10 mm long, articulated 3-4 mm from base. Perianth segments c. 20 mm long. Sepals linear, 2-2.5 mm wide, shortly mucronate. Petals elliptic, 5-6 mm wide; fimbriae c. 5 mm long. Stamens 6; anthers twisted, 3 outer 5-6 mm long, 3 inner c. 12 mm long and curved. Style curved, c. 13 mm long. Seeds ±spherical, c. 1.5-2 mm diam.; aril almost black.
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