Description |
Rootstock a rhizomatous corm. Leaves up to 25 cm long, 4-7 mm broad, linear. Scape 15-40 cm long. Involucral bracts 1.5-2.5 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, lanceolate. Umbel 6-10 flowered; flowers opening in succession. Pedicels up to 2 cm long. Perianth tube 3-4 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, campanulate cylindrical, white, often tinged with purple. Perianth segments 5-7 × 4-5 mm, oblong-elliptical, obtuse or sometimes irregularly emarginate; margin slightly curved; whorls set 1-2.5 mm apart. Corona 3-4.5 mm long, subcampanulate irregularly 3-lobed, each lobe emarginate-serrate, green to yellowish orange. |