Stemless, up to 4 cm high. Bulb ovoid, often 4 cm long; tunics rather hard, loosely imbricate, attenuate-acicular at the apex, dark brown, minutely rough and undulate. Rhizome up to 25 cm long, thick in the upper part. Leaves rosulate, prostrate, usually very numerous; petioles compressed, up to 2 cm long and 2-3 mm broad, winged below the basal articulation, elongating after flowering, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, densely ciliate; leaflets 20-29, sessile, palmate, oblong, completely conduplicate-involute and so subcylindrical, 5-7 mm long, glabrous above (i.e. inside), pubescent beneath, minutely penicillate at the apex, the incurved ciliation concealed within. Peduncle solitary, 1-fld., 0.5-1.5 cm long, sparsely hairy, with 2 keeled pubescent bracts imbricating the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, often slightly attenuate, about 6 mm long, pilose and ciliate with hyaline hairs, particularly on the upper part. Corolla 2-3 cm long, white, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals broadly obovate, up to 1.3 cm broad, obscurely darkened on the outer margin beneath, a little longer than the obliquely tapering claw. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-5 mm, the longer 5.5-7.5 mm long, sparsely and minutely glandular-pilose, with very broad truncate teeth. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above.
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Dwarf, acaulescent geophyte, up to 40 mm tall. Bulb tunics hard, dark brown. Leaves often undeveloped at flowering, in a prostrate rosette, petioles compressed, leaflets 20-29, palmate, oblong, pubescent beneath. Flowers 1 per peduncle, white, with a yellow tube.
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