Bulbs up to 15 cm in diam., with a considerable neck, often propagating vegetatively to form dense clusters. Leaves glaucous to greyish green, erect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, mostly with intact apices, 40 x 1–3.5(–5) cm, with a distinct midrib. Scape 40–80 cm long, produced with the leaves or somewhat earlier; bracts erect for a while, papery, greyish. Flowers 2–6, sessile or almost so, heavily scented, red to pink in bud, fading to pure white, sometimes tinged pink, during anthesis, only rarely with a pink dorsal streak; tube curved, (3–)6–10 cm long; segments broadly lanceolate, 8–10 x c. 2 cm, forming a bell, with reflexed outer parts during anthesis. Filaments white, 4–6 cm long, of unequal length; anthers 6–10 mm long, curved, black to brownish. Style white, as long as the perianth segments. Fruits greenish, sometimes tinged red, with a thick fleshy pericarp, subglobose without an apical beak. Seeds not seen.