seasonally dormant herbs, tuber hypogeal, subglobose or rhizomatous and horizontal; leaves 3-4(-6) in each sympodial unit; petiole sheath long to short
Sibultaimedest õitsevad mais hüatsindid (Hyacinthus), kobarhüatsindid (Muscari), [...] mitmesugused laugud (Allium), püvililled (Fritillaria), linnupiimad (Ornithogalum), ka aarumid (Arum) jt.
