Leaves : Radical leaves 2, linear, exceeding the flowers; cauline leaves more or less ciliate, usually alternate and spaced, the lower cauline leaf separated from the upper one by a branch of the inflorescence.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers : Inflorescence an almost racemiform anthela, with erect, spaced peduncles bearing shortly pedicellate, more or less villous flowers; perianth campanulate; tepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, strongly ciliate and greenish outside; stamens with short yellow anthers, slightly exceeded by the style.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit : Capsule obovate, shorter than the perianth.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation : Slightly humid places in mountain habitats, mainly in the middle and high mountain belts, also on Hermon and the Anti-Lebanon.
Lebanese distribution : Recorded by Mouterde from Jabal Kneissé, the Col de Zahlé, Jabal Sannine, Khan Sannine, the Cedars of Ma‘asser, the Cedars, Jisr-el-Hajar, the Col des Cèdres toward Foum-el-Mizhab, Hermon, and above Baalbeck in the Anti-Lebanon.
Native range : Lebanon-Syria.
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit : Small perennial bulbous geophyte; bulbs enclosed in a common tunic more or less laciniate at the summit, the larger bulb smooth and orange-coloured, the smaller one very small, violet, striate and somewhat verrucose.