Ipheion Raf.
Low-growing bulbous perennials with oniony smell when bruised. Bulb tunicate. Leaves all basal, linear, ± fleshy, flat, base sheathing. Scape erect; spathe-valves 2. Flowers solitary, pedicellate, tubular below, lobes spreading above. Staminal-filaments without appendages, broadened below, subulate above. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds many. Spp. c.10, of S. America (Uruguay, S. Brazil, Argentina and Chile), see Guaglianone in Darwiniana 17, 1972, 159-242. Adventive sp. 1.
