Crinum defixum Kar-Gawl.  Stout, bulbous herb, attaining the height upto 1.5 m  Fibrous roots, without any aerial out growth of roots  Rhizome bulb, ovoid or globose, caudex  Lamina upto 0.5 m long and 8.0 cm in breadth, slightly sheathing at base, linear, entire, acute, adaxially convex, dark green, fleshy, glabrous, isobilateral, unicostate, parallel venation.  Inflorescence umbel, scape axillary, erect, cylindrical, triangular, fleshy, solid, spongy, green, 5 - 10 flowers on each peduncle  Flower ebracteate, bisexual, regular, erect, epigynous, upto 5.5 cm long and 5.0 cm across.  Tepals 5, gamotepalous, 5 lobes above, linear, mucronate, herbaceous, imbricate, white, convex, slightly folded, deciduous, fuse to form hollow tube beneath, fleshy, spongy  Stamens 6, free, filaments jointed at base by white thin layer, mid position curved, anthers bilobed, dark yellow with mid-narrow evergreen, linear line, exerted, extrose  Carpels 2, syncarpous, ovary inferior, globose, 4 chambered, one ovule in each chamber, axile placentation, style 1, terminal, stigma 1