Bulbous, scapigerous, small herb; bulb perennial, ovoid or globose; leaves variable, radical, oblong-lanceolate, tips often recurved subacute or mucronate, sheathing at base, glabrous, often with black blotches, sessile or petiolate; scape small, 5-16cm long; raceme cylindric, 30-50 flowered; bracts minute or small, pinkish white; flowers pink-purple, perianth persistent, campanulate, lobes-6, outer recurved, inner erect or spreading; stamens-6, filaments short, anthers oblong, introrse, versatile; ovary stipitate, globose, 3-celled, styles minute, united at the base, filiform, recurved, stigma trifid; capsule globose, trigonous, cells 1-2 seeded, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds obovoid or subglobose, black.