Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 292 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: After a beautiful mythical Greek shepherdess.

Description:
Tall bulbous herbs; leaves long, broad-linear, basal, distichous at first, produced after the flowers.

Flowers large, white or pink, pedicellate in an umbel which is at first enclosed in a spathe of 2 broad membranous bracts at the summit of a stout leafless scape; perianth deciduous, with a short funnel-shaped tube and 6 nearly equal lobes; corona 0; stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the tube; the anthers versatile, linear; style flliform, long; stigma capitate; ovary 3-celled, with many axile ovules in each cell.

Capsule opening irregularly, with few seeds.

Distribution:  1 species native to South Africa.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available