Slender, caulescent, up to 10 cm high. Bulb small, ovoid, somewhat attenuate at base and apex, up to 9 mm long; tunics sharply acute at the apex, laevigate, dark brown, lightly nerved. Rhizome 2-4 cm long. Stem 2-3 cm long, simple or rarely bifurcate, pubescent at the base, usually glabrous above, with 1-2 ciliate scales. Leaves 7-12, apically congested, sometimes 1-2 cauline; cauline petioles squamiform, ciliate, the apical 0.5-1 cm long, pubescent, the outer dilated and ciliate below the articulation; leaflets 3, subsessile, linear, conduplicate, often slightly falcate, 5-8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, glabrous, ecallose, or with 2 minute apical calli. Peduncles 1-fld. apical, 2-4 cm long, pubescent, with 2 alternate rubro-callose bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 6-7 mm long, sparsely pubescent, ciliate, ecallose. Corolla 1.8-2 cm long, pale straw-coloured, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals obovate, sometimes slightly truncate, twice as long as the claw. Filaments, the shorter 1.5-3 mm, the longer 3-5.5 mm long, glandular-pilose on the outer edge, with acute teeth about 0.5 mm long. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 8-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glabrous or glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.
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