| Description |
Rootstock a corm with a rhizomatous base. Leaves 10-20 × 0.4 cm, linear. Scape up to 20 cm long. Involucral bracts up to 2.5 cm long, 8 mm broad, tinged with purple. Umbel of 6-10 flowers; flowers usually produced before the leaves. Pedicels up to 2.5 cm long. Perianth tube 6-7(-8) × 2-3 mm, cylindrical or slightly campanulate, rose-purple (rarely pure white). Perianth segments 6-8 × 3.5-4.5 mm, ovate-acute; whorls set very close together. Corona 1 mm long, obscurely 3-lobed, each lobe separated from the next by a minute bright red, secondary lobe. |
