Description
Hairy or glabrous herbs, bulbous or thickly rhizomatous.
Leaves radical, linear to narrowly elliptical.
Inflorescence a 1- to many-flowered raceme;
Flowers with free tepals.
Stamens free.
Fruit a dry capsule, regularly dehiscent.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Tropical Africa present
About 100 species, predominantly in tropical Africa; one indigenous species in Malesia and one cultivated.
