Perennial herb; bulbs subglobose; leaves radical, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 20-40 cm long, obtuse, plicate, many nerved, glabrous; flowers solitary, pedicellate on a fistular scape up to 30-45 cm long; bracts spathaceous, entire or bifid; perianth, campanulate, straight or somewhat declinate, lobes 6, equal or unequal, broad, obovate, narrowed at base, tube short, pink with dark nerves, dilated upwards; stamens 6, adnate to perianth-throat, short and long alternating, filament alternating with subulate teeth; ovary 3-locular, ovules many in each locule, style filiform, long, stigma 3 fid; capsule, subglobose or ovoid; seeds white, glabrous.