Corms elongate and uncormlike, 1.5-3.5 cm × 1-6 mm. Leaves 5-15, (often buried in soil except for adaxial surface of each leaf blade, rarely clavate, mostly sharply divided into blade and petiole, 7-15 mm); petiole 3-10 mm wide, to 1/7 as wide as blade; blade yellow-green, ovate to orbiculate or reniform, 0.2-0.7 cm × 2-7 mm, 2-4 mm thick, base 1-2 mm wide, apex rounded (margins often subglobular), surfaces somewhat glaucous. Inflorescences: cincinni 3-10-flowered, 1-4 cm; floral shoots 2-11 cm × 0.5-1 mm at base, to 2.5 mm wide near middle; leaves 10-20, spreading, blade triangular-ovate to suborbiculate or reniform, 0.2-1 cm × 2.5-8 mm, 2-6 mm thick, apex obtuse. Flowers with musky, sweet odor; petals connate 0.7 mm, spreading from near middle, white, pinkish on keel and yellowish toward base, often red-lineolate, elliptic, 5-8.5 × 2-3.5 mm, apex subobtuse, corolla 8-15 mm diam.; pistils connivent or separate, erect at anthesis; ovary 2-4 mm; styles 1-1.5 mm. Follicles widespreading, adaxial margins nearly horizontal. 2n = 34.
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