Cormous geophyte, 300-500 mm tall, corm tunics leathery and netted, stem and leaves covered with adhering sand grains. Leaves several, lanceolate. Flowers 2-6, in umbel-like cymes in axils of upper leaves, nodding, pale yellowish and chocolate-maroon, tepals recurved, free, basally spurred, 18-20 mm long; filaments 8-9 mm long; style 4 mm long.