Bulb subglobose, 2.5--4 cm in diam.; scales white, articulate. Stem gray-white, 1.2--1.8 m, smooth. Leaves scattered, lanceolate or very narrowly ovate, 9--10 × 1--1.2 cm, glabrous, 3--5-veined, margin papillose. Flowers solitary or 2--7 in a raceme, funnelform. Tepals spreading distally and recurved apically; outer ones lanceolate, ca. 18 × 2.5 cm; inner ones spatulate, ca. 3 cm wide; nectaries greenish, neither papillose nor with fimbriate projections. Filaments ca. 13 cm, base densely tomentose; anthers ca. 1 cm, with yellow pollen. Ovary ca. 3 cm. Style ca. 10 cm. Capsule subcylindric, Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep.

* Meadows; 1000--2000 m. SE Yunnan (Wenshan Xian).