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Flowers reddish purple, umbel many flowered, stem 50-90 cm, summer flowering. Bulb ovoid to subglobose, 1-2.5 cm diam.; outer tunics pale or yellowish-brown, membranous or coriaceous, sometimes splitting longitudinally into parallel fibres; bulblets present, whitish or yellowish, up to 2 cm long, ovoid, flattened or concave on one side, acuminate, sessile or norne on long stipes well above the bulb beneath the leaf sheaths. Stem (15-)20-90 cm, smooth. Leaves 2-6, shorter than the inflorescence, sibterete, canaliculate, fistulose, 1-4 mm wide, glabrous, or slightly scabrid-papillose on the margins, sheathing the lower quarter to half of the stem; sheaths smooth. Spathe split into 2(-4) valves, the valves 1-2 cm long, ovate at the base, shortly beaked, shorter than the umbel, persistent and reflexed. Umbel spherical or broadly ovoid, (1.5-)2-3.5(-6) cm diam., usually very dense, normally wholly floriferous but sometimes also with bulbils present. Pedicels smooth or papillose, unequal, 0.5-2(-3) cm long; bracteoles few; laciniate, silvery-white. Perianth ovoid-cylindrical to ovoid; segments deep reddish-purple, pink, or white with a green or yellowish keel, 3.5-6 mm long, papillose on the outside, especially on the keel, or smooth, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, often mucronate. Stamens with conspicuously exserted anthers; filaments minutely papillose-dentate at the base, the outer ones triangular-subulate, the inne ones with anther-bearing cusp equalling to about half as long as the expanded undivided basal part and slightly longer than to slightly shorter than the lateral cusps; lateral cusps exserted; anthers purple or reddish before dehiscence. Style exserted. Capsule broadly ovoid or subglobose, 3.5-4 mm long; seeds 2.5-3 mm long, angular, black. |
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