Description |
Rootstock rhizomatous; rhizome often up to 10 cm long, swollen. Leaves very glaucous, linear, only slightly keeled. Scape 15-30 cm long. Involucral bracts 1.3-2.0 cm long, up to 7 mm broad, broadly lanceolate. Umbel 6-10 flowered, flowers opening in succession. Pedicels up to 2 cm long. Perianth tube 6 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, cylindrical-campanulate, green. Perianth segments 2-4 × 1.5-2.0 mm, lorate-lanceolate; in 2 whorls 1 mm apart; apex acute to rounded, green. Corona 2-3 mm long, slightly broader than the perianth tube, cylindrical, fleshy, obscurely 3 or 6 crenate, orange-brown. |