Scape 10–20 cm, slender. Flowers 14–24 mm; perianth pale purple or lilac, rotate, tube urceolate, slightly contricted above ovary, 9–11 mm, thin, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending to strongly recurved, 9–11 mm; filaments 4–5 mm, base not triangular, with narrow abaxial wings, appendages absent; anthers ± obcordate, 2–3 mm, apex notched into wide V; staminodia erect, held close to stamens, white, broad, 8–11 mm, margins 1/2 involute at mid length, apex deeply notched; ovary 4–5 mm; style 8–11 mm; pedicel 5–30 cm. 2n = 12.