Scape 20-70 cm, stout. Flowers 24-38 mm; perianth pale lilac or sometimes white, tube cylindrical, 9-12 mm, translucent, splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 20-30 × 4-10 mm, usually more than twice length of tube; filaments 7-10 mm, base not triangular, appendages absent or rudimentary; anthers linear, 9-12 mm, apex rounded; staminodia erect, white to pale lilac, narrowly linear, usually flat, 16-27 mm, margins 1/4-1/2 involute, apex rounded; ovary 5-11 mm; style 15-23 mm; pedicel 2-10 cm.