Bellevalia malatyaensis

Bulb globose-ovoid, 1.5–2 cm diam., outer tunic coriaceous, dark brownish; inner tunic papery, whitish. Leaves 1–2 , lanceolate-elliptic, shorter than scape, 6–10 × 1–2.5 cm, with margin membranaceous and distinctly ciliate, apex cucullate. Scape single, 2.5–7 cm long, greenish, pale brown when dry. Raceme cylindrical, laxly flowered, rachis bluish, 3.5–7 cm long. Bracts minute, bluish, bilobed. Pedicels distinctly longer than flowers, horizontally ascending or erect,  sometimes slightly deflexed; 0.8–3 cm long in flowering time, becoming slightly longer in fruiting time to 3.5 cm and distinctly horizontal, violet to greenish. Flowers 10–22, perianth white to greenish in bud, later pale brown on tube, 4.5–6 mm long, tubular-campanulate; tube 3.5–4.5 mm long, white, pale brownish at the base of tube, lobes 1–1.5 mm long, subequal, ovate-lanceolate, whitish, distinctly shorter than tube. Stamens flattened, narrowly triangular, filaments connate towards the base of perianth lobes, anthers violet, 0.1–0.3 mm long, reaching at least to the middle of the lobes and visible in the mouth of the flower. Capsules triquetrous, valves of capsule c. 3–7 mm long, slightly thin, lanceolate-orbicular, retuse at the apex, dehiscent, persistent. Seeds broadly ellipsoid, 1.5–2 × 1.3– 2.2 mm, blackish, shiny. Fl. 4–5.

Endemic.