Slender, caulescent 5-1 high. Bulb lanceolate in outline, sharply acute at the apex, 3-4 cm long: tunics lanceolate or ligulate, attenuate, needle-pointed, shining, brown, the outer pilose with retrorse coppery hairs, particularly near the base and apex. Stem slender, rigid, up to 7 cm long, minutely viscoso-pilose, reddish-brown, with a few scales or abortive leaves. Leaves up to 12, or rarely more numerous, apically congested or rather densely imbricate, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent: petioles filiform, often 2 cm long, reddish-brown: leaflets 3, sessile, narrow-linear, conduplicate or involute, emarginate, sometimes slightly falcate, sprinkled with numerous small pellucid streaks which become black in drying. Peduncles 1-fld., apical or rarely arising from the cauline scales, a little longer than the leaves, reddish, with 2 small alternate subulate striate bracts near the apex. Sepals narrowly ovate or obovate, acute, 3 mm long, crispate-ciliate on the upper half, longitudinally striate with pellucid lines (black in drying). Corolla 1.6-1.9 cm long, coppery-rose or rosy purple, with a rather widely funnel-shaped yellow tube: laminae of the petals broadly obovate, 8-10 mm wide, pellucid-striate near the margin, tapering to a short cuneate-attenuate claw. Filaments, the shorter 2-3 mm, the longer 3-5.5 mm long, glandular-pilose, unequal, sometimes slightly gibbose. Ovary pubescent and callose on the upper part, the chambers 2-3-ovuled: styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.
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