Plants 30-50 cm tall. Bulb ovoid, 3-4 cm long; outer coats reticulate fibrous. Scape 30-50 cm tall, base covered by leaf sheaths, outermost sheath membranous, sometimes papillate. Leaves 3-4, linear, c. 1 mm broad, grooved, not fistular. Spathe white to pink, persistent, acuminate. Umbels dense flowered. Pedicels c. 1 cm long. Tepals purple, 8-10 mm long, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, veins dark coloured. Filaments entire, almost or as long as the tepals, connate at the base, inner slightly broader than the outer. Ovary oblong; style exserted. Seeds granulate.

Fl. Per.: May. to early June.

Type: Described from Central Asia.

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan and USSR.

Grows from 1500-2000 m in N.W. Baluchistan.