A herb up to 120 cm tall, bulb 6—20 cm in diameter, false stem up to 15 cm long. Leaves 9—12, elliptical, 20—70 cm x 2.5—7.5 cm, mostly prostrate, margin long undulate, scabrous. Umbel 6—15-flowered, scape 25—60 cm long, bracts 6—9 cm x 2—3 cm, purplish. Flowers fragrant, corolla tube 10—14 cm long, more or less pendulous, lobes lanceolate, 8—13 cm x 2.5—3 cm, white with pink bands, stamens declinate, filaments 6—8 cm long, curved suddenly upwards at apex, white, anthers purplish, turning black, style 16—20 cm long. Capsule subglobose, 2—5 cm in diameter, beaked, pericarp leathery, purplish, turning yellow. |
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