laciniate

Ultimate leaf segments lanceolate or ovate- lanceolate, margins irregularly laciniate.

tunic yellowish brown to blackish brown, sometimes tinged with red, papery, laciniate, sometimes subfibrous.

tunic light brown, sometimes tinged with black, subleathery, apex usually entire, sometimes laciniate.

inside with 2 appendages in lower half oblanceolate, laminar, apex laciniate, inserted on two lateral sides of midribs of petals.

outer tunic whitish black-brown to dirty black, membranous to scarious or subpapery, apex sometimes laciniate to fibrous.

Petals deciduous or persistent, inside with 2 scale-like appendages in lower half, margin laciniate, serrate, or entire.

rachis glabrous; bracts russet, palmately laciniate, glabrous.

lobes membranous, margin laciniate.

tunic yellowish brown to dark brown, laciniate or fibrous.

tunic dark brown, fibrous, subreticulate at base, rarely laciniate.

aril fleshy or membranous, apex laciniate.

3 (2) Ultimate leaf segments oblong, margin pinnatifid or variously laciniate-dentate.

Corona absent or a laciniate to membranous ring at apex of hypanthium.

4 (3) Leaf blade margin deeply laciniate-toothed, teeth 4-8 mm, apex truncate with a caudate tip.

Bulbs clustered, cylindric, 0. 5--1 cm in diam. ; tunic brown, leathery, apex entire or laciniate.

Petals 4 or 5, white, free, margin laciniate, rarely entire or lobed.

styles 3, ca. 6 mm, pectinate-laciniate.

lobes nearly orbicular, slightly waved or obscurely laciniate, sometimes with 1 small linear lobe or obtuse tooth on each lateral side;

Leaves opposite; stipules triangular, to 1. 5 mm, laciniate;

medial lobes round, shallowly 2-lobed or laciniate;

Petals 5, obtriangular-ovate, 4-6 mm, laciniate to middle, both surfaces puberulent;