Bulbs up to 10 cm in diam., often with a considerable neck, often propagating vegetatively to form clusters. Leaves not glaucous, spreading to erect, narrowly lanceolate, mostly with intact apices, 30 x 2.5–5 cm, with distinct midrib. Scape 20–50 cm long, produced with the leaves; bracts persistent, greenish tinged red. Flowers 3–6, dark greenish red in bud; tube greenish red, curved, 8–10 cm long; perianth segments white with a broad sharply bordered dark red band, visible on both sides, broadly lanceolate, 8–10 x c. 2 cm, forming a bell, with reflexed outer parts during anthesis. Filaments white tinged red, shorter than the perianth segments; anthers dark, 8–10 mm long, curved. Style tinged red distally. Fruits greenish tinged red, with thick pericarp, subglobose without or with a very short apical beak. Seeds light green, not particularly smooth, closely stacked and irregularly compressed, 15–45 per fruit.
