Description |
Roots fleshy, up to 15 cm long. Rootstock rhizomatous, surrounded by the scarious remains of leaf bases. Leaves 10-45 × 0.4-1.2 cm, linear. Scape 15-30 cm long. Involucral bracts up to 20 mm × 7 mm, broadly lanceolate. Umbel (4-)6-10-flowered; flowers opening in succession. Pedicels up to 2 cm long. Perianth tube 7 mm long, olive green tinged with purple, cylindrical-campanulate. Perianth segments 2-4 mm × 2 mm, oblong-obtuse, olive green; whorls set 0.5 mm apart. Corona up to 5 mm long, trisect, each lobe ca. deeply bifid; lobes acute, brown-purplish. |