Annual, small, slender, grass like, cormatous herb; corm tunicated, perennial, globose; stem erect, leafy; leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, linear lanceolate, apex acuminate, coriaceous, upper gradually smaller, acuminate, base sheathing; flowers small, erect, solitary or 2-3 in racemes; pedicels long; bracts linear, foliaceous; perianth purple-red, segments-6, linear-subulate, spreading, equal, narrowly clawed, reflexed; stamens-6, filaments short, flat, anthers ovoid, introrse, versatile; ovary sessile, 3-celled, styles-3, united at the base, filiform, recurvd, stigma trifid; capsule oblong-ellipsoid or subglobose, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds numerous, subglobose.