Erect, caulescent, rather densely hirtellous, 4-8 cm high. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, up to 2.5 cm long, with smooth brown easily separable tunics, the inner paler. Rhizome often 6 cm long, with smooth amplexicaul scales. Stem erect, 1-6 cm long, with 1-6 puberulous scales. Leaves numerous, with slender petioles 1-2 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, subequal, cuneate, rounded and slightly incised at the apex, 4-8 mm long, pilose above and beneath, ciliate often with introrse hairs. Peduncles 1-fld., apical, 1-2 cm long, with 2 alternate linear bracts close to the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, dark purple at the apex, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-1.8 cm long, white, with a fairly widely funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals cuneate, slightly attenuate below, subtruncate and dotted with minute reddish calli towards the apex. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-5 mm, the longer 4.5-7.5 mm long, sparsely and minutely glandular-pilose, edentate. Ovary hirsute on the upper half, the chambers 3-ovuled; styles sparsely glandular-pilose. Seeds without endosperm.
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Erect, caulescent geophyte, with unbranched stem, 40-80 mm tall. Bulb tunics loose, smooth, brown. Leaves with slender petioles, leaflets 3, cuneate, densely pubescent above and below. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts close to calyx, white, with a yellow tube, calyx covered with coarse grey hairs.
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