Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms.
Foliage leaves mostly basal, plane or plicate. Flowers
actinomorphic (aurea) or zygomorphic (paniculata) with stamens
arched under the upper tepal; in shades of orange to
red; tepals united into a perianth tube. Stamens and style
well exserted from the tepals. Fruit a capsule. Seeds spherical,
hard, shiny.