Herb
with a bulbous rootstock; leaves alternate and borne edge to edge,
simple, sword-like, leaf veins parallel, raised slightly above
the somewhat pleated leaf blade surface, giving the leaf a ridged-striate
appearance; sepals and petals white, petals (inner tepals) about
three-fourths as long as the sepals (outer tepals); ovary inferior,
covered by inflorescence bracts.
