Bulbs clustered, cylindric; tunic brown, thinly leathery, ± entire. Leaves linear, equaling to slightly longer than scape, 2--3 mm wide, subfistulose. Scape 20--25 cm, terete, fistulose, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1-valved, persistent. Umbel hemispheric, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequal, slightly shorter than to equaling perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth pale red, lustrous; segments linear-lanceolate, 6--8 × 1--2 mm, apex acuminate with a reflexed point. Filaments equal, ca. 2/3 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones ovate at base, 1-toothed on each side. Ovary with concave nectaries at base. Style not exserted. Fl. and fr. Jun--Jul.

* Slopes; 1300--1400 m. SW Xinjiang (Kunlun Shan, Yecheng Xian).