Evergreen bulbous plants, proliferating from the base to form loose clusters. Roots are white, fleshy, 2 mm in diameter. Bulbs ovoid, up to 50 mm high with loose club-shaped bulb scales, 18–30 mm long and up to 23 mm in diameter, exposed and above the substrate. The bulb scales are succulent, reddish to brownish green, stalked and rounded at the tip; stalk flattened, up to 4 mm in diameter. Leaves 1–3, linear, almost rounded (subterete), 47–50 mm long and 3–5 mm in diameter, leathery, dark green; the upper surface shallowly channelled, the lower surface with 12–14 grooves.

The inflorescence is 340–380 mm long; the raceme 60–120 mm long, bearing 20–30, drooping, white flowers on pedicels 15–18 mm long; The bracts with a basal spur (caudate). The lobed, star-shaped flowers, are 22–24 mm in diameter. The anthers are spear-shaped and the filaments fused into a central staminal column, 2.5 mm high and 2 mm wide. The ovary is green, egg-shaped and 6-grooved, 3 mm high and 1.5 mm in diameter and with a style 4.5 mm long. The capsule is 3-locular, 10 mm long and 7.5 mm in diameter. The seed are flattish and oblong, 7 × 3 mm, with a black angular surface.  Flowering time is spring.