Plants 20–40 cm high. Corm globose, 12–25 mm in diam., tunics firm–papery, breaking into vertical fibers above and below. Cataphylls 2–3, membranous, the uppermost extending above the ground and green. Leaves 2–3, all ± basal, narrowly lanceolate, about half as long as the stem, 5–10 mm at the widest. Stem unbranched, c. 2.5 mm in diam. below the first flower. Spike 2–4-flowered; bracts (2.5–)4–5(–8) cm long, the inner shorter and narrower than the outer. Flowers white (or palest pink), sometimes with purple median streaks in the lower midline of the lower tepals, sweetly scented; perianth tube (7–)8–10 cm long, ± straight and cylindric; tepals subequal, broadly lanceolate-elliptic, (20–)25–30 mm long, c. 15 mm wide. Filaments c. 2 cm long, included in the tube (or exserted 1–2 mm); anthers 8–10 mm long, with a rigid apiculus 1.3–1.8 mm long. Ovary oblong, c. 5 mm long, the style dividing opposite the anther apices, the branches 5–7 mm long often notably broad and fringed. Capsules narrowly elliptic to obovate, 18–22 mm long; seeds variously winged to wingless.
