Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily[2]: 46  is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.

[3] It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant.

It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld.

It propagates by producing offsets and seed.

Flowers are white with narrow tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.