Rather densely hairy with simple hairs, usually with an exserted stem. Bulb ovoid or ovoid-oblong, often 2-3 cm long, the blackish gummy tunics pubescent with rufous hairs at the apex. Stem erect, stout, leafless, usually 2-4 cm long, with 1 or 2 semiamplexicaul scales. Leaves fairly numerous, terminally congested, spreading, with hirsute petioles up to 3 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, cuneate-oblong, entire at the apex, conspicuously undulate at the margins, 1-1.5 cm long, pilose on both faces, green or brown, often nigro-punctate. Peduncles terminal, 1-fld., 2-4 cm long, hirsute, with 2 small opposite bracts at an upper articulation near the middle. Sepals lanceolate, 4.5-5.5 mm long, hirsute, inconspicuously callose at the apex. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous, rather pale yellow, with a broadly funnel-shaped tube; petals 8-12 mm broad, the obliquely obovate limb twice as long as the claw, with a broad band of minute purple dots and streaks along the outer margin beneath. Filaments, the longer 3.5-6.5 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose, with short teeth. Ovary pubescent and callose on the upper half, the chambers about 9-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above.
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Caulescent or rarely acaulescent geophyte, up to 100 mm tall. Bulb tunics gummy, blackish, with rufous hairs at apex. Leaves congested, green or brown, leaflets 3, cuneate-oblong, hairy, often black-dotted, apex entire, margins undulate. Flowers 1 per peduncle with opposite bracts at ± middle, pale yellow, petals outlined with purple beneath, peduncle arching below leaves in fruit.
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