Slender herbs up to 45 cm tall. Corm ± cylindrical, 2–4.5≈1.5–3 cm, white or greenish-yellow inside. Leaves forming a whitish pseudostem up to 5 cm long, narrowly lanceolate, ± erect, up to ± 45 cm≈1.5–6 mm, glabrous or thinly pilose, mostly on the margins and midrib abaxially (outside) with hairs 2-armed, the arms fine, appressed, ± unequal; only 2 visible veins except the midrib.Inflorescences 1–6, with slender scapes up to 21 cm long, 0.7–1 mm wide. Flowers most often solitary; pedicels 2–6 mm long; bracts 5–15 mm long, filiform to linear-lanceolate; tepals up to ± 12≈3–4 mm, narrowly elliptic, thinly pilose abaxially (outside); stamens equal, filaments subulate, 1.3–4 mm long, anthers 2.6–3.2 mm long, not split at the apex; ovary obconical, 3 mm long, style 0.5–1.6 mm long, stigma 1.5–2.3 mm long. Capsule 5–10≈4–5 mm, turbinate-cylindric, thinly pilose, circumscissile. Seeds dark brown, 0.8–1.2 mm diameter, globose; testa papillose, each papilla with a minutely wrinkled cuticle and 3–4 longitudinal narrow wing-like ribs (as in Fig. 1: 3 & 6, p. 4).
