Dwarf, stemless, weak, 1.5-4 cm high. Bulb ovoid or sometimes lanceolate in outline, acute at the apex, angular, about 2 cm long; tunics calyptrately joined, imbricating, conspicuously pinnate-nerved, beaked at the base, brown. Rhizome very slender, 1-6 cm long. Leaves 3-6, spreading; petioles 1-3 cm long, like the peduncles pale and very minutely glandular-viscid, broadly dilated below the articulation; leaflets 3, sessile, broadly obcordate, cuneate or attenuate at the base, from minute to 4.5 mm long and 6 mm broad, glabrous, rather succulent, with large epidermal cells, the mid-rib conspicuous, impresso-punctate on both faces (very irregularly on the scurfy lower surface) when dried. Peduncles 1-fld., 1-10 mm long, with 2 alternate narrow-lanceolate membranous bracts below the middle. Sepals ovate, membranous, glabrous, 3-4 mm long. Corolla 1.5-3.8 cm long, pale straw-coloured, netted-striate with fine purple veins, with a rather narrowly funnel-shaped concolorous tube. Filaments glabrous, the longest from 7-8.5 mm long, acutely toothed, recurved at the apex. Ovary subglobose, 1.5 mm long, glandular-puberulous on the upper half, the chambers several-ovuled; styles glandular-pilose. Capsule globular.
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Dwarf, acaulescent geophyte, 15-40 mm tall. Bulb tunics pinnate-nerved, brown. Leaves broadly dilated below, leaflets 3, broadly obcordate, ± succulent with conspicuous midrib. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts below middle, ± subterranean with only the spreading petals above ground-level, pale yellow, petals violet-veined beneath.
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