Small, perennial geophyte. Stems 1-several, erect, 50-100 mm high; densely covered in spreading or deflexed hairs. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 25 x 2.0-4.2 mm, attenuating into short petioles, margins folded upward; lower surface harshly puberulous, glabrous above, margins ciliate. Flowers 1-4, extra axillary; pedicel 4-5 mm long. Corolla: petals fused into small campanulate tube ± 3 mm long; lobes rotate, spreading, linear-lanceolate, attenuate towards apex. Gynostegial column compressed and discoid. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes fused into 5 deeply cleft pockets that are contiguous to staminal corona lobes; inner circumgynostegial trough filled with hairs. Flowering time Nov., Dec., May.
Dwarf geophyte to 10 cm; sap clear. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, pubescent. Flowers 12-20 mm diam., campanulate with cupular tube, yellow with purple spots and bars within, corona dark purple-brown.