Small, perennial geophyte. Stems solitary, soon branching several times, 50-70 mm high, erect, produced from discoid tuber. Leaves spreading, linear, 12-16 x 2-6 mm, sessile. Flowers 2 or 3; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Corolla fused at very base, crateriform (bowl-shaped), ± 0.5 mm deep; lobes spreading-erect, narrowly ovate, with margins revolute, ± 5 x 0.7 mm, greenish yellow. Corona coronate, yellow; interstaminal corona lobes fused at base but apically produced into 2 widely separated, erect, fleshy, recurved, dentate appendages; staminal corona lobes linear, incumbent on backs of anthers. Flowering time Nov.?
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