Compilation
Belamcanda chinensis

Plants 0.6–1 m. Rhizomes just below ground level, horizontal, flesh usually orange. Stems usually 3–5-branched. Leaves 8–14 per stem; blade narrowly lanceolate, 1/2 to ± equaling stem, 10–20 mm wide, glaucous. Rhipidia usually 3–6-flowered; spathes ± equal, 10–20 mm. Tepals ascending proximally, ± spreading distally, light orange to reddish (rarely yellow), with large, irregularly scattered spots of darker pigment, lanceolate, 16–35 mm; filaments (6–)10–12 mm; anthers 6–8 mm; ovary narrowly ovoid-3-angled, (4–)6–8 mm; style 3-angled proximally, thickened in distal 1/2, dividing opposite anther apices, branches ca. 2 mm. Capsules ovoid, 18–26 mm, apex truncate. Seeds persisting on placentas after capsule dehiscence, black, ca. 4 mm diam., shiny.