Dwarf, stemless, patent-puberulous, rarely glabrescent or glabrous, up to 3. high. Bulb lanceolate in outline, often tortuous, shortly and acutely beaked, with brown undulate, papery tunics. Rhizome 32 cm long (or longer), very slender below, enclosed in a loose, brown, papery cortex, with amplexicaul scales on the upper part. Leaves 5-27; petioles 0.5-2 cm long, often slightly flattened, green, widened and pulvinate at the apex; leaflets 5-9, shortly petiolulate, linear-oblong, sometimes slightly cuneate, conduplicate-falcate, obtuse, 0.7-1.6 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, the medial nerve conspicuous, narrowly cartilaginous at the margins, glabrous above, ciliate, usually inconspicuously brown-dotted, particularly near the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., 0.5-1.5 cm long, with 2 alternate linear orange-callose bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, usually attenuate, ciliate, with elongate orange calli along the margins, sometimes narrowly purple-margined on the lower half. Corolla 1.2-2.2 cm long, yellow, with a short broadly funnel-shaped concolorous tube; petals broadly cuneate-obovate, attenuate to a short, broad claw, obliquely subtruncate at the apex, 0.7-1.2 cm broad. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-5 mm, the longer 5-9 mm long, sparsely and minutely glandular-pilose, slightly gibbose. Ovary glabrous or near the apex, like the styles, shortly pilose with pluricellular hairs, the chambers 2-3-ovuled. Capsule subglobose. Seeds without endosperm.
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