Appearance
Perennial. Corm thick, globular. Leaves petiolate; petiole sheathing, often purplish. Limbs shorter than petioles, those of the first sprouts regular, the others decomposed into secondary limbs issued at the base with one fitting into the other. Spathe with a tube equal to the lamina. The outer part of both has light background with numerous brown veins; the inner part of the lamina blackish brown or purplish, granulated. Appendix black, short.
Distribution
Middle East, S Turkey to Egypt and Iran, including Lebanon (Coast, middle mountain, Beqaa Valley of Lebanon), Israel, Jordan and Syria.
Habitat
Fields, waste ground, rocks. Sandy semidesert.References:
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