Description:
Plants 50–80 mm high. Corm ellipsoid, 10–15 × 7–12 mm with basal ridge 4–6 mm wide. Leaves 3 to 5, spreading, linear to lanceolate, plane or weakly conduplicate, 30–60 × 3–6 mm, ciliolate on margins, apices slightly thickened and boat-shaped. Flowers hypocrateriform, pale to deep violet or rarely white; perianth tube trumpet-shaped, widening in distal 5 mm, 25–35 mm long; tepals obovate, 15–20 × 8–10 mm, subacute. Stamens erect; filaments 5–6 mm long, white; anthers suberect, 5–7 mm long, yellow. Style 33–38 mm long, dividing near middle of anthers, branches 4–5 mm long, spathulate or lacerate. Capsules clavate or turbinate, 5–10 mm long. Seeds angled, ± 1.5 mm diam., brown, testa colliculate or partly foveolate. Chromosome number: 2n= 12. Flowering time: May–June.
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