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Perennial herb. Rootstock producing fascicled, narrowly fusiform roots. Stem 1, simple, up to about 0.25 m tall, slender, glabrous. Leaves ascending, linear, ±45 mm long, sessile, glabrous. Flowers 1-3 together in fascicles or very shortly pedunculate, extra-axillary, rarely axillary; pedicels 2-4 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, ±1.5 mm long. Corolla 2-2.5 mm long, lobed to 3, green; tube saucer-shaped, much shorter than staminal column; lobes campanulately spreading with incurved tips, broadly ovate, with small thick or subclavate, weakly attached hairs at tip on inner face. Corona arising 1/4-1/3 up staminal column, producing 5 outer lobes 1 mm long, oblong, bifid, very hairy; inner lobes linear, up to 1 mm long, incumbent on backs of anthers, with connivent-erect tips, glabrous.
Dwarf geophyte to 10 cm with cluster of swollen, fusiform roots; sap clear. Leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers 3-4 mm diam., campanulate with very short tube, green, corona pubescent.
