Bulbs clustered, cylindrical to ovoid or almost rounded; coats papery, white to brownish or reddish. Scape up to 1 m tall, stout, fistular, usually inflated below the middle. Leaves cylindrical, fistular. Umbels spherical, densely flowered. Flowers stellate. Pedicels 3-4 times as long as the tepals. Tepals greenish-white, 4-5 mm long, oblong, obtuse. Filaments exserted, inner 2-toothed at the base.