Leaves: Three to eight, with broad basal sheaths and broadly linear blades, glaucous especially near the base. Margins more or less wavy and twisted, edged with short hairs. Lower surfaces usually bear stiff, slightly recurved bristles, but may be glabrous in the variation described by Mouterde.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: Short inflorescence, 4–8 cm long, with seven to twenty flowers. Bracts lanceolate, tapering to a long sharp point, shorter than or slightly exceeding the flower stalks, with eight pale, green or brownish stripes. Flower stalks spread upwards at flowering and arch outwards in fruit. Funnel-shaped perianth, 10–20 mm long; free obovate-lanceolate tepals, the outer ones blunt and inner ones more pointed, with a narrow green stripe ending below the tip. Filaments oval-triangular; anthers oblong and yellow. Ovary globular, with a style of similar length and a very small stigma.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit: Globular, unwinged capsule, 7–8 mm long.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: Stony fields and pastures; described as widespread in the regional flora.
Syrian distribution: Chmaisse, Slenfe, Jabal Qalamoun, Homs, Meidan Ekbes–Radjou, Kissoue, Adra–Dmeir, Jabal Abd el Aziz, Troumba, Jabal Amiri, Jabal Bichri, Qaryatein and south of Qaryatein. Mouterde’s marginally hairy-leaved variant is additionally recorded at Zraiqiye, Khisfine–Fiq, Ain Bader, Sale and Kafer.
Recorded locations: Sannine.
Native range: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine and Türkiye.
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit: Bulbous perennial with an ovoid bulb 1–2 cm long and flowering stems 10–30 cm tall.