Stemless, 3-8 cm high, variously pilose. Bulb, when mature, subglobular, some-what attenuate at the base and apex, often 2 cm long, the younger narrow-oval, conspicuously attenuate or subfusiform; tunics hard, smooth, blackish-brown. Leaves few or up to 20; petioles terete, up to 4 cm long, puberulous, pubescent or rarely hirsute, with simple or glandular hairs; leaflets very variable, the medial rotund, tapering more or less cuneately to the base, obovate, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, or cuneate-rhomboid, acute, the lateral rather smaller, oblique, glabrous, softly pubescent or villose and sometimes purple-zoned above, glabrous, distinctly veined and sometimes deep purple beneath, ciliate with simple, glandular or setose hyaline straw-coloured hairs or entirely naked on the margin. Peduncles 1-fld., usually very short, with indument as on the petioles, with 2 opposite bracts at an articulation below the middle. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 4-8 mm long, puberulous or sometimes subhirsute, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-4.5 cm long, white, with a narrowly funnel-shaped pale yellow tube; laminae of the petals broadly cuneate, subtruncate at the apex, often purple-punctate on the outer margin, slightly longer than the narrow claw. Filaments usually glandular-pilose, the shorter 2.5-5 mm, the longer4.5-8 mm long, with long acute teeth. Ovary rather densely pubescent, sometimes only on the upper half, the chambers 5-8-ovuled; styles more or less pubescent, with some glandular hairs above. Seeds endospermous.
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Acaulescent geophyte, 30-80 mm tall. Bulb tunics hard, smooth, blackish brown. Leaves in a ± upright rosette, leaflets 3, central one cuneate-rotund to cuneate-rhomboid, lateral ones smaller, glabrous or densely glandular-pubescent, sometimes fringed with straw-coloured hairs, occasionally purple beneath. Flowers 1 per peduncle with opposite bracts in lower half, white, with a ± narrow, pale yellow tube, petals often purple-spotted on margin beneath, peduncle arching below leaves in fruit.
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