Leaves : Basal leaves oblong, long-petiolate and caducous; cauline leaves all alternate, linear to linear-lanceolate, plane.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers : Flowers solitary or few, large, nodding, long cylindric-campanulate; tepals about 3 cm long, oblanceolate-oblong, contracted at the apex into a broad mucro, more or less recurved outward, yellowish flushed reddish inside, brown-red outside, sometimes also mixed with yellow, tessellated; filaments papillose, about 1.5 times as long as the anthers; style trifid above the middle.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit : Capsule oblong-claviform, not winged.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation : Stony places, from the lower mountain belt to the middle mountain belt.
Lebanese distribution : Recorded by Mouterde from above ‘Aramoun in Kesrouan, ‘Achkout, Rayfoun, Ra‘chine, Hadtoun toward Mayfouk, Nahr-ed-Deheb toward Machta, Moghairé-Afqa, the forest of Ehden, above Ehden, Hasroun and Sannine.
Native range : Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye.
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit : Perennial bulbous geophyte; bulb globose-ovoid, 1–2 cm; stem slender, 30–70 cm tall, leafy from about the middle upward.