Small, with a short stem, sparsely villose, 4-7 cm high. Bulb ovoid-conical, acute at the apex, 2.5-3.5 cm long; tunics glabrous, thin, papery, rather pale reddish-brown, the outer splitting and plicate at the base. Rhizome long, stout for the size of the plant. Stem 1-2 cm long, glabrous, usually with several scales on the lower part. Leaves rather numerous, more or less imbricate on the upper part of the stem; petioles up to 2 cm long, often shorter, the lowest scarcely projecting above the basal articulation; leaflets 3, sessile, bilobed to about the middle, often 0.6 cm long, 1 cm broad, ecallose, rather thick, impresso-punctate when dry, conduplicate, the medial nerve falcate, the lobes obtuse, diverging. Peduncles many, 1-fld., 2-4 cm long, with 2 opposite subulate bracts on the upper part. Sepals oblong-lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, about 6 mm long, sparsely ciliate, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-1.7 cm long, glabrous, rosy, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals subcuneate, 7-8 mm broad, slightly attenuate to the base. Filaments minutely glandular-pilose, the shorter 1.3-3.5 mm, the longer 3.5-5.5 mm long, edentate or slightly gibbose. Ovary glandular-pilose on the upper half, the chambers 1-ovuled; styles with simple and capitate hairs admixed. Seeds with thin endosperm, the embryo green.
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