Pancratium sickenbergeri Asch. & Schweinf , it is a bulbous geophyte, Glabrous herbaceous perennial, 30-40 cm high; bulb solitary, ovoid, 4-10 cm long, 2-5 cm diameter; neck 5-20 cm long; tunic dark or blackish-brown. Leaves 3-9(-13), developing after flowers, glaucous, linear to lanceolate linear or lorate, (8-)10-30 cm long, 0.3-1.0 cm diameter, broadest at the middle or below, decumbent over the soil surface, spirally twisted along its whole length, gradually tapering above into acute apex, glabrous near the base; base truncate, without scarious-membranous sheath. Aerial scape solitary, solid, compressed, glaucous, 10-17 cm long, dilated at the tip (0.3-0.5 cm diameter), glabrous. Spathe 2-valved, unequal, imbricate, elongated ovoid or lanceolate-subulate, 3-5 cm long, (0.7-)1-2 cm diameter, gradually tapering above into an acute apex. Flowers 2-5(-6), short, 7-10 cm long, 2-3 times as long as the spathe, fragrant, shortly-pedicelled; pedicels stout, 0.3-1.0 cm long, shorter than the ovary; perianth white, 6-9 cm long; perianth-tube 2-4 cm long, as long as the perianth-segments or commonly shorter; perianth-segments 3-5 cm long, white, with a broad green mid-stripe outside, outer rather longer and wider, narrowly spathulate, obtuse to subacute at the mucronate or shortly cuspidate apex; inner lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, acute or subacute, perianth-segments up to 1.5 times as long as the corona; corona 3-4 x 2-3 cm, margin 12-teethed; teeth narrowly attenuate-triangular, 4-6 mm long, 2-3 mm diameter, longer than the free filament; free part of filament glabrous, 3-5 mm long; anthers yellow, 5-10 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm diameter; ovary glaucous, glabrous, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 1-2 cm long, 0.5-1.0 cm diameter; style white, filiform, 6-8 cm long; stigma white, obscurely 3-lobed, shorter than the perianth-segments (about 0.5-0.7 cm shorter). Capsule broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1.5-2.0 cm diameter; seeds irregularly angular and compressed or cone-shaped, 6-9 mm long, 3-7 mm diameter; testa black, sublastrous, minutely and closely faveolated.
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