Plants 6--15 cm tall. Bulb ovoid-globose or globose, 5--8 mm in diam.; tunic dark brown, subleathery; bulbels several, within tunic, narrowly ovoid. Leaves basal and cauline; basal leaf 1, filiform, 9--15 cm × 1.5--2.5 mm; cauline leaves 2 or 3, proximal 2 narrowly lanceolate, 2--4 cm × 3--4 mm, basally slightly amplexicaul. Inflorescence 2-or 3(--5)-flowered, corymbose. Pedicel glabrous. Tepals yellow adaxially, yellowish green abaxially, narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic-linear, 8--12 × 2.5--3 mm. Stamens 6--9 mm. Style slightly longer than ovary; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Seeds polyhedral. Fl. Apr. 2 n = 36.
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