Stemless, hirsute, up to 4 cm high. Bulb ovoid, beaked at the apex, up to 2 cm long; tunics pale brown, with prominent paler brown longitudinal nerves. Rhizome about 30 cm long or more, 1.5 mm thick, patent-pubescent, with pubescent scales. Leaves up to 30; petioles up to 2-5 cm long, densely hirsute with yellowish hairs, the outer conspicuously widened and scale-like below the basal articulation, terete above; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, thick, broadly cuneate-obcordate or obdeltoid-obcordate, very slightly and widely indented or subtruncate on the anterior margin, about 0.8 cm long, 1 cm broad, strigose-sericeous above, densely sericeous beneath and on the margin, concolorous. Peduncles 1-fld., 1-2 cm long, densely hirsute, with 2 opposite linear pilose bracts at an upper articulation above the middle. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, densely hirsute, ecallose. Corolla 2-2.5 cm long, sulphur yellow, concolorous, with a widely funnel-shaped tube; petals obliquely cuneate, 1-1.3 cm broad, rounded at the apex, pubescent near the outer margin beneath. Filaments, the shorter 3-4.5 mm, the longer 4.5-7.5 mm long, sparsely pluricellular-pilose, with short subobtuse teeth. Ovary densely cano-pilose on the upper half, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles with simple and pluricellular hairs admixed. Capsule not exserted. Seeds endospermous.
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Acaulescent geophyte, up to 40 mm tall. Bulb tunics brown with pale brown longitudinal nerves. Leaves in a basal tuft, leaflets 3, broadly obcordate, densely silkyhaired above and beneath, hairs yellowish. Flowers 1 per peduncle with opposite bracts in upper half, sulphur-yellow, margins of petals sparsely hairy beneath.
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