Plant to 45 cm high. Rootstock a small corm 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter, with rhizomatous base, covered by membranous, reddish brown leaf-bases. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 12.5–37 cm long, 0.18–0.8(–1) cm wide, apex rounded, margin entire, base sheathing and persistent, glabrous. Scape 1–2 per plant, 8–32 cm long. Inflorescence an umbel with 6–9(–12) scented flowers and a pair of involucral bracts; bracts pinkish, membranous, unequal, larger bract 2.7–3.3 cm long, 0.3–0.5 cm wide, smaller bract 2–2.1 cm long, 0.15–0.2 cm wide, lanceolate with long-attenuate apex, margin entire, base amplexicaul, larger bract partially enclosing the smaller; pedicels 0.6–2.7 cm long. Perianth greenish white to pale purplish; tube 5–8 mm long, cylindrical in young flowers, becoming urceolate, lobes 6, in 2 whorls set 2–3 mm apart, lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 5–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex acute, with 1 main median nerve, white tinged with purple or green; corona cylindrical tocampanulate, 3-lobed, somewhat fleshy, bright yellow to orange, 3.5–5 mm long, margin irregularly and shallowly lobed, lobes to 1 mm; anthers 6, sessile, 1–2 mm long, one series of 3 inserted at mouth of corona, sometimes slightly exserted, one series inserted below at base of corona or where corona is fused to perianth tube, ± 5.5 mm above base of perianth tube; ovary subglobose, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm diameter; style 0.8–1 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm in diameter, not exserted; stigma capitate, papillate. Capsule sub-globose, 3-lobed, 4–4.5 mm long, 3–5 mm in diameter, each locule 1–2-seeded. Seeds 3–3.5 mm long, sub-crescent shaped with 2 angles on inner face, surface rough. Fig. 1 (page 3).
