An ovoid bulb with outer sub-coriaceous, brown or greyish-brown tunics, splitting vertically into triangular sections. Stem is subterete to obscurely 2-angled, carrying 3-5 leaves that are wide in lower part, flat, linear, acute, keeled below, often coiled near the apex, ciliate on margins and mid-vein is beneath. The sheaths are below ground or only just visible above ground. The spathe is papery, 1-valved and the valve is persistent, ovate, acuminate and split into 3-4 lobes. The umbel is spherical, many- flowered and dense. Perianth is with spreading scarious silvery-white, suborbicular to broadly ovate, obtuse to subacute, persistent inner segments. Fruit is a capsule.
Mareotic Sector
Sandy and stony places at low altitudes near the sea.
Perennial
Height: 5-10 cm
Endemic
