Plants 8--15 cm tall. Bulb ovoid-globose, 5--8 mm in diam.; tunic brown-yellow, papery; bulbels absent. Leaves basal only, 1 or 2, semiterete, fistulose, 7--20 cm × 3--4 mm. Inflorescence usually 3--5-flowered, umbellate. Floral leaf broadly lanceolate, slightly shorter than or equaling inflorescence, 6--10 mm wide. Pedicels unequal, pilose. Tepals yellow adaxially, yellow-green abaxially, narrowly oblong. 1--2 cm × 3--4 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 5--10 mm. Style nearly as long as ovary. Capsule obovoid, trigonous, ca. 1/2 as long as enlarged, persistent tepals. Seeds globose. Fl. and fr. Apr--May.