Bulb very narrowly ovoid or oblong, attenuate, acute at the apex, up to 1-3 cm long, with firm, dark brown, minutely areolate tunics. Rhizome slender, rather short. Leaves glabrous, few or many: petioles dark reddish-brown, often 1-1-5 cm long: leaflets3, petiolulate broadly ovate often conduplicate-falcate, entire, 3-6 mm long, with a line of rather large dark calli along the margin. Peduncles 1-fld., glabrous, often 1-2 cm long, with 1-2 minute bracts on the upper part of ebracteate. Sepals more or less oblong-lanceolate, 2.5- long, minutely ciliate, with 2 or more apical calli. Corolla 1.7-2. long, deep pink, with a purple eye in the throat: tube dull yellow. Filaments, the shorter 3-4.5 mm., the longer 5-7 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose, gibbose. Ovary pubescent or glandular on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 3-4-ovuled: styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above.
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Small, acaulescent geophyte. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets broadly ovate, with dark marginal calli. Flowers deep pink with purple ring and yellow tube.
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