Scilla villosa Desf. / Homotypic Synonyms: Oncostema villosa (Desf.) Raf., it is a bulbous geophyte, similar to the Scilla peruviana L., but much smaller; roots fibrous, attached to discoid, rhizomatous stem. Bulb ovoid to spherical membranous with papery tunics, 1-3 cm diam.; outer tunics brownish. Leaves basal, usually spreading on ground, lanceolate, dark-green in colour, basal portion whitish to reddish, leaf margins ciliate, lower surface villose and the upper usually glabrous, 7-10 x 0.7-0.8 cm with ± attenuate tip. Scape cylindrical, 3-6 cm long, glabrous. 3-12-flowered. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels 0.7-1 cm long; bracts linear to oval lanceolate, membranous, uninerved and margin ciliate. Perianth ± stellate. Tepals 6, free, oblong-lanceolate uninerved, with papiliose tips, violet-rosaceous to dark violet, 5·6 x 1.5-2 mm. Stamens 6, shorter than tepals; filaments filiform, broad at base and attenuating towards the tip. Anthers ± oblong, midifixed, yellowish in colour. Ovary and style pear-shaped with capitate stigma. Capsule ovoid acuminate, 3-angled. Seeds ovoid black, c. 3 mm long.
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