Erect, with an exserted stem, rather sturdy, but often dwarfed by climatic conditions, densely cano-hirsute. Bulb ovoid, attenuate-acute, up to 3 cm long, with loose sharply acute dark brown tunics. Stem leafless, 1-14 cm long, sometimes branching in the upper part, with several semi-amplexicaul pubescent or hirsute scales. Leaves usually numerous, terminally clustered, with petioles 0.5-2.5 cm long; leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, linear, linear-cuneate or oblong-cuneate, often conduplicate and falcate, obtuse, usually minutely emarginate, 0.5-1.7 cm long, 2-6 mm broad, glabrous above, hirsute beneath, ciliate with both patent and introrse hairs, ecallose. Peduncles 1-fld., usually shorter than the leaves, with 2 linear bracts imbricating the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5.5 mm long, densely hirsute. Corolla 1.6-2.2 cm long, pale rosy violet, with a subcylindrical pubescent yellow tube; laminae of the petals obovate, rather shorter than the narrow claw, pubescent on the outer margin beneath, with a few small reddish calli near the slightly acute apex. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-6 mm the longer 5.5-10.5 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose, edentate, the longest usually well exserted from the corolla tube; anthers oblong, small. Ovary cano-pubescent on the upper half, often callose near the apex, the chambers 2-ovuled; styles sparsely pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Capsule globular. Seeds without endosperm.
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Erect, caulescent, occasionally branching geophyte, 10-140 mm tall, densely whitehaired. Bulb tunics loose, with sharply acute ends, dark brown. Leaves terminally clustered, leaflets 3, linear to oblong-cuneate, often conduplicate and falcate, hirsute beneath, softly fringed. Flowers 1 per peduncle, with bracts embracing calyx, pale rosy violet, with a ± subcylindrical, pubescent, yellow tube, petals pubescent on margin beneath.
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