Plants up to 30 cm long. Roots swollen, pale, short, covered with old skin flakes with many straggling rootlets, spreading horizontally. Rhizome short, vertical. Squamae surrounding shoot yellow or white. Leaves usually about 7, erect, filiform, ca. 15 cm long, 1 mm in diam., soft, usually with some reflexed bristlelike hairs occasionally glabrous, rarely densely hairy. Inflorescence usually overtopping the leaves, up to 30 cm high, simple or with a few, short, ascending branches, few flowered; scape slender, glabrous or minutely scabrid; bracts small, ovate, auriculate, ending in a long, soft awn, membranous; pedicels short, ascending, up to 6 mm in fruit, buds sessile. Flowers with a spreading perianth, white or pale pink, brown keeled, maculate with yellow dots near the base; segments about 10 mm long, filaments subequal, muricated, flattened below and there with dorsal and lateral fringes; ovary with 10 ovules per cell. Capsule oblong, apiculate, 3-6 mm long, touching rhachis. Seeds tetrahedral, dark brown, verrucose.
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Rhizomatous perennial to 30 cm, roots few, spreading. Leaves few to many, linear, often undulate, usually hairy. Flowers mostly in a simple raceme, nodding, white, base of peduncle pubescent. Fruits on short, erect pedicels.
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