Erect, caulescent, often branching, sometimes bushy, 5-10 cm high, densely clothed with hyaline pluricellular hairs. Bulb large, narrow-ovoid or oblong, acute at the apex; tunics rather loose, rough, undulate, splitting, blackish-brown. Rhizome up to 20 cm long, usually coated with old bulb tunics, at least on the lower part. Stem up to 9 cm long, leafless at the extreme base, densely leafy above, with 1-8 branches up to 3 cm long. Leaves numerous, congested, with scale-like petioles 0.5-1. long; leaflets 3, sessile, cuneate-clavate, 6-10 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, conduplicate, slightly falcate, deeply incised with ovate lobules at the apex, subglaucous, glabrous above, pilose beneath and on the margins. Peduncles 1-5, 1-fld., axillary, with 2 subulate bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 5-6.5 mm long, often subobtuse, ciliate. Corolla 1.8-2.2 cm long, bright yellow, with a broadly funnel-shaped concolorous tube; petals broadly cuneate, subtriangular, abruptly and obliquely truncate at the apex, 0.9-1.1 cm broad, sometimes purple-streaked on the outer margin beneath. Filaments, the shorter 3-4.5 mm, the longer 4.5-8 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose on the outer edge, shortly and obtusely toothed. Ovary about 2-3 mm long, glabrous, ecallose, the chambers 3-ovuled; styles glandular-pilose. Capsule subglobose. Seeds without endosperm.
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Erect, caulescent geophyte, 50-100 mm tall, often branching. Bulb tunics loose, rough, blackish brown. Leaves densely arranged along stem on short, scale-like petioles, leaflets 3, cuneate-clavate, conduplicate, hairy beneath, deeply notched at apex. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts towards calyx, axillary, bright yellow, petal margins sometimes purplestreaked beneath.
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