Plant robust; bulb 5-10 cm diam., globose, whitish or yellow, occasionally tinged purple. Stems 60-120 cm high, sometimes woody below, erect, dark purple-brown, with soft, white, cobwebby hairs, rooting at base, the subterranean rooting portion to ± 50 cm depth in loose soil. Leaves many, 6-15 × 1-2 cm, dark green, sessile, linear-lanceolate, upper with bulbils in axils. Flowers (1) -5-6- (15) on simple or shortly-branched axis, deep bright orange-red with numerous purple-black spots, nodding; segments 6-10 cm long, strongly revolute. Capsule not seen.