Erect, caulescent, 5-18 cm high, densely clothed with patent hyaline pluricellular capitate hairs. Bulb oblong-lanceolate in outline, about 8 cm long, tortuous; tunics ligulate, many-nerved and conspicuously longitudinally ridged, the outer at length splitting and fibrous. Stem up to 10 cm long, with a few semiamplexicaul scales. Leaves up to 18, apically congested, with petioles 1-2.5 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, linear-cuneate, conduplicate, slightly emarginate, 0.7-1.6 cm long, 1-3.5 mm broad, more or less falcate towards the apex, usually with a number of inconspicuous brown apical calli, ciliate, glabrous and often glaucous above, pilose beneath, particularly on the lower part and median nerve. Often with purple streaks along the margins. Corolla 1.5-2.4 cm long, white, the short broadly funnel-shaped yellow tube often longitudinally streaked with 5 purple lines; petals cuneate, sometimes slightly attenuate to the base, obliquely subtruncate at the apex, more or less streaked with purple on the outer margin beneath. Filaments glabrous, the shorter 2-4 mm, the longer 4-7.5 mm long, shortly and obtusely toothed. Ovary glabrous or sparsely glandular-pilose above, the chambers 2-3-ovuled. Capsule globose. Seeds without endosperm.
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Erect, caulescent geophyte, 50-180 mm tall, densely covered with spreading capitate hairs. Bulb tunics longitudinally ridged, many-nerved. Leaves apically congested, leaflets 3, linear-cuneate, conduplicate, upper surface glabrous. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts, towards apex, white or pale pink, with a yellow tube, petals ± streaked with purple beneath.
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