Small plants usually solitary or occasionally in clumps up to 30 cm high. Roots fleshy, swollen above, very irregular with numerous, filiform secondary roots. Rhizome small. Squamae membranous, large, surrounding a whole shoot as well as the base of the leaves and the scape individually, gaping, membranous, white. Leaves 2-5per tuft, linear to linear-lanceolate, 6-45 cm long, 2-10 mm broad, straight or with a lax twist or occasionally, plicately folded, thin, flat, glabrous or hispid, often with a purple margin, glaucous, erect or prostrate. Inflorescence a simple, congested raceme; peduncle at first short, lengthening during flowering, 2-28 cm long, hispid or glabrous; bracts large, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, up to 15 mm long, membranous; pedicels up to 3 cm long, hispid, curving down in fruit. Flowers with perianth hispid on outside, pinkish white, slightly spreading, immaculate; segments ca. 1 cm long; stamens dimorphous, filaments pink, inner more muricate than outer, ciliate at the base; ovary with 8 ovules per cell. Capsule ovate, glabrous, 4 mm. Seed 2 mm in diam.
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Rhizomatous perennial to 30 cm, roots few, fleshy and swollen. Leaves few, lanceolate, pubescent. Flowers in a subcorymbose, unbranched raceme, white, peduncle pubescent. Fruits on very long, spreading, pubescent pedicels.
An onion like plant. The leaves are thin and narrow. They are flat and have purple along the edge.
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