Stemless, heterophyllous, up to 9 cm high. Bulb ovoid or subfusiform, up to 2. long, with hard smooth black tunics. Rhizome about 4 cm long. Leaves, the younger first produced by the bulbils trifoliolate, with terete petioles, the later simple, but all simple from the second season; petioles in the mature plant somewhat flattened, 2-6 cm long; leaflets at first rotund; lamina in the mature plant more or less elliptical or obovate, subtruncate at the base, thick, 2.5-3.5 cm long, 1.2-1.8 cm broad, glabrous or hirsute, impresso-punctate on both faces when dried, the medial nerve conspicuous. Peduncles 1-fld., about as long as the petioles, with 2 alternate subulate bracts above the middle. Sepals broadly lanceolate, pale, 7-8 mm long, minutely penicillate. Corolla about 1.7 cm long, rosy-purple, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals broadly cuneate, attenuate at the base, but scarcely unguiculate, truncate-retuse at the apex. Filaments, the longest 7.5 mm long, sparsely villose towards the base, very sparsely glandular-pilose above, edentate. Ovary glabrous, ecallose, the chambers 10-12-ovuled. (Brevistylar form only seen).
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Acaulescent geophyte, up to 0.09 m high. Bulbs ovoid, smooth, blackish brown. Leaves mostly unifoliolate, first leaves often trifoliolate, elliptic-obovate. Flowers bright pink with yellow tube. Flowering time June.
Acaulescent geophyte. Adult leaves unifoliolate, leathery, elliptic-obovate, sometimes hairy. Flowers magenta with yellow tube.
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