Small, 4-5 cm high, rather densely villoso-pubescent with whitish hairs, the stem not or rarely scarcely exserted. Bulb tunics, the outer linear, dark brown, undulate, crispate and interwoven, the inner papyraceous, lanceolate or ligulate, up to 3.5 cm long, paler brown. Rhizome very long, up to 65 cm or more, with nerved membranous semi-amplexicaul scales 0.5-1.2 cm long. Leaves 15-40, rosulate or rarely closely imbricate on a short stem; petioles often 3-5 cm long, dilated, squamiform and 3-nerved below the basal articulation; leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, ovate-orbicular, somewhat truncate and broadly incised at the apex, conduplicate-falcate, glabrous above, pilose especially on the medial nerve beneath, impresso-punctate when dried, the medial 0.6-1.4 cm long, 0.5-1.1 cm broad, the lateral rather smaller, slightly oblique. Peduncles 1-fld., rather shorter than the leaves, with 2 small alternate bracts rather above the middle. Sepals more or less broadly lanceolate, 7 mm long, densely adpresso-pubescent, ecallose. Corolla 1.8-2.5 cm long, sparsely pubescent, rosy, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube. Filaments, the longer 5.5-9 mm long, sometimes sparsely glandular-pilose, edentate. Ovary pilose at the apex, the chambers 2-ovuled; styles densely glandular-pilose. Capsule subglobose. Seeds endospermous.
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Perennial herb, up to 50 mm high; densely pubescent. Tunics with outer ones linear, undulate, crispate and interwoven. Leaflets ovate-orbicular, up to 14 x 10 mm, conduplicate-falcate. Flowers: peduncle 1-flowered; sepals ecallose; petals pink, tube yellow; 18-25 mm long; Feb.-Apr.
A herb. It grows 5 cm tall. It is hairy. It has a long rhizome or underground stem. This can be 65 cm tall.
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