Dwarf, perennial geophyte. Stems 1 or 2 usually unbranched stems, 20-50 mm high, ± erect, produced from apically depressed tuber. Leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, 15-35 x 10-15 mm, puberulous; petioles 10 mm long. Flowers solitary, nodding; pedicel ± 5 mm long. Corolla campanulate, 10 mm in diam., outside greenish, inside horizontally purple to purple-brown-striped at base around gynostegium, stripes becoming vertical thereafter with papilla-like hairs; tube ± 10 mm long; lobes 4-5 mm long, ovate but apically acute and spreading slightly. Corona small; interstaminal corona lobes fleshy, fused at base into 5 short pockets produced into an erect, dentate-like tooth on each outer margin; staminal corona lobes fleshy linear, ligulate, incumbent on anther backs, fused laterally at base to interstaminal corona. Flowering time Jan.? Follicles erect, subfusiform and slightly curved, smooth, ± 80 mm long.