Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Bulbous perennial herb.

Stems: Scapose.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Spirally arranged. Blades linear to 4 mm wide. Base sessile. Surfaces dull green. Margins entire. Veins parallel. Sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in spathe 1.6–2.6 cm, pedicels 2.3–4.4 cm, usually longer than spathe. Flowers bisexual (perfect), erect; perianth lemon yellow, funnelform, 3.1–5 cm; perianth tube green, 0.7–1 cm, increasing in diam., less than ⅓ perianth length, ca. ½(⅓–¾) filament length, less than ½ spathe length. Perianth of 6 tepals subequal, in 2 series, rarely reflexed. Stamens 6, diverging, in 2 distinctly subequal sets; filaments filiform, subequal, 1.2–2 cm; anthers 5–7 mm. Ovary inferior; styles longer than perianth tube; stigma capitate, usually among or below anthers, not exserted more than 1 mm beyond anthers.

Fruit: Fruit a thin-walled capsules; 3-locular; subglobose or ± oblate. Seeds numerous; black; flat; and lustrous.

Ploidy: 2n = 48

Habitat: Moist; sandy loam.

Elevation Range: 0–100 m.