Biarum aleppicum J.Thiébaut

Tuber slightly dorsoventrally compressed-globose, 3–4 ×  1.5–2.5 cm, apparently without offsets, mid-brown. Leaves 10–35,  ysteranthous,  long but obscurely petiolate, bases encased by 5–7, 2–15 cm × 10–13 mm, narrowly lanceolate cataphylls; inner cataphylls sub-fleshy, later papery,  pale greenish white drying pale straw-yellow, outer cataphylls fi brous, dark  brown; petiole 3–7 cm × 1–3 mm, abaxial surface slightly channelled distally,  expanded into a membranous wing proximally, dull green, expanded portion tinged purple basally; leaf lamina linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic,  7–13 cm × 3–10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, base long-decurrent, c. 5 primary lateral veins per side, margins crispulate, rarely smooth, lamina midgreen.  Inflorescence appearing in mid-autumn. Peduncle 4–17 cm × 3–5 mm, whitish, clothed with several 2–16 cm × 10–13 mm fibrous brown outer and  papery, pale straw-yellow inner cataphylls. Spathe 14–16.5 cm long; spathe limb oblong-lanceolate, 12–13.5 × 4–5 cm, apex sub-acute, exterior pale  green ± heavily spotted deep purple, interior deep purple, occasionally with pale green mottling and spots; spathe tube slender, 2.5–3 × c. 1.5 cm, margins free to the base, exterior white below ground, deep purple above, interior white. Spadix sub-equal to the spathe limb, 11–12 cm long; spadix  appendix sessile, fusiform, 8–8.5 cm × 2–6 mm, deep purple. Staminate  flowers in a zone c. 12 mm × 1.5 mm, anthers cream. Interstice c. 16 × 2 mm, pale cream. Staminodes clothing the basal half of the interstice, densely arranged, slender, 4.5–5 mm long, purple, often a few 1–1.5 mm staminodes  present high up on the interstice. Pistillate flowers in a hemispherical cluster c. 2.5 × 7–9 mm; ovaries oblong, 1.5 mm × 0.5 mm, pale cream, stigma  sessile, 0.25–0.33 mm, capitate, deep purple. Infructescence globose, c. 2 cm diam. when semi-mature, consisting of c. 40 berries; berries 4 × 5 mm, pale lilac when ripe; seed ovoid, 5 mm × 5–6 mm, testa slightly reticulate, midbrown. 2n not recorded.