Bulbs clustered, subcylindric; tunic dull yellow to yellowish brown, reticulate to subreticulate. Leaves linear, shorter than scape, 1.5-8 mm wide, 3-angled, 1-keeled abaxially, fistulose, margin and angles scabrous-denticulate or smooth. Scape 25-60 cm, terete, obscurely angled, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1- or 2-valved. Umbel hemispheric to subglobose, many flowered. Pedicels subequal, 2-4 × as long as perianth, bracteolate and several covered with a common bract at base. Perianth white, sometimes slightly tinged with pale red; segments with pale red midvein; outer ones oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, usually slightly narrower than inner, (4.5-)5.5-9(-11) × 1.5-2.9 mm; inner ones oblong-obovate, (4.5-)5.5-9(-11) × 1.8-3.1 mm. Filaments narrowly triangular, equal, 1/2-3/4 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; inner ones slightly wider than outer at base. Ovary obconical-globose, minutely tuberculate, without concave nectaries at base.

Plants for a Future

In the treatment of haemoptysis, epistaxis, cough, sore throat, asthma, dysentery, dyspepsia etc (leaves and buds); in the treatment of spermatorrhoea, haematuria, incontinence, lumbago etc (seeds)