Herb
with a bulbous rootstock; leaves alternate and borne edge to edge,
simple, sword-like, leaf veins parallel, raised slightly above
the leaf blade surface, giving the leaf a ridged-striate appearance;
sepals and petals lavender with reddish purple markings at the
pale yellow center; anthers fused in a ring-like cylinder surrounding
the style; stigmas 6; ovary inferior.
