Erect or procumbent, usually caulescent, 5-25 cm high. Bulb ovoid, more or less attenuate at the apex; tunics lanate. Rhizome up to 30 cm long or longer, very slender towards the base, sometimes lanate or pilose on the upper part, with a few small scales; plant rarely bearing aerial bulbils. Stem sometimes short, covered from the base with closely imbricate petiolate leaves, or elongate, subligneous, simple or branched, often very shortly, nude or leafy, glabrous or variously pilose, often with a few lanceolate scales. Leaves on the stem or branches usually subsessile or more rarely petiolate, the upper closely imbricating in a cluster towards the apex of the stem or branches, always petiolate; petioles pilose, generally 1-4 cm long, or in shade forms longer; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, more or less obdeltoid in outline, usually 0.5-1 cm long, from densely silky-pubescent to almost glabrous beneath, bilobed to about the middle or well beyond, sometimes broader than long, the lobes obtuse, widely diverging, rarely with a few indistinct calli. Peduncles apical on the stem or branches, 1.5-5 cm long, rarely longer, pilose, often with glandular hairs admixed; bracts 2, linear, opposite, at an articulation above the middle. Sepals varying from oval, 3-4 mm long to lanceolate, up to 7 mm long, densely cano-pubescent or shortly glandular-pilose, purple-margined, with 2-4 apical calli or frequently ecallose. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, red or more rarely rose, pubescent or glandular-pubescent, with a fairly wide funnel-shaped yellow tube, shorter than the limb; petals broadly cuneate, slightly attenuate below, 0.9-1 cm broad, rounded, abruptly truncate, retuse or lightly incised at the apex, with a darker reddish-purple outer margin beneath. Filaments pubescent, often with glandular hairs admixed, the longer up to 7 mm long, shortly and rather obtusely toothed. Ovary oblong, about 2 mm long, densely pubescent nearly to the base, sparsely pubescent about the apex or even completely glabrous, with conspicuous calli, varying from a single row around the apex to a succession of vertical rows reaching nearly to the base; styles hispid, sometimes with short glandular hairs admixed. Seeds endospermous.
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Caulescent or rarely acaulescent geophyte, up to 300 mm tall, often branching. Bulb tunics woolly, sometimes with bulbils in leaf axils. Leaves often subsessile along stem but petiolate near apex, leaflets 3, bilobed to middle, often silky beneath, sometimes with a few, oblong, tan-coloured calli beneath. Flowers 1 per peduncle with ± opposite bracts in upper half, red to purple, with yellow tube, petals with reddish purple margins beneath.
Caulescent geophyte with stem to 30 cm, often branching, bulb with hairy scales. Leaves trifoliolate, often subsessile, leaflets bilobed to middle, often silky beneath. Flowers red to purple with yellow tube, peduncle articulated.
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