Small, stem-less or with a very short stem, entirely glabrous. Bulb ovoid or narrow-ovoid, often 2 x 5 cm long: tunics hard, dark brown, attenuate, curved and sharply acute at the apex. Rhizome about 5 cm long. Stem none or short, like the rhizome bearing scales. Leaves 2-6, basal or apically congested, with petioles 0-5-2 cm long, with stipule-like membranous wings below the articulation: leaflets 3, sessile, rather thick, impresso-punctate on both faces when dried, the medial very broadly rotund, slightly attenuate at the base, emarginate, 0 x 6-1 x 1 cm long, 0 x 7-1 x 5 cm broad, the lateral smaller, entire, obliquely rotund or transversely elliptical. Peduncles 1-fld., much longer than the leaves, 2-5-5 cm long, with 2 minute alternate linear bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 4-5-6 mm long, usually dark purple towards the apex, with 2 inconspicuous red apical calli. Corolla small, reddish-purple or white, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube: petals narrow-cuneate, obliquely subtruncate or slightly retuse at the apex, 1-1 x 4 cm long, 3 x 5-4 mm broad, conspicuously reflexed. Filaments, the shorter 2-3-5 mm, the longer 3-5-5-5 mm long, glandular-pilose, edentate. Ovary glabrous or glandular on the upper half, with elongate calli, the chambers 8-ovuled. Capsule subglobose. Seeds endospermous.
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Acaulescent or rarely short-stemmed, glabrous geophyte, ± 45 mm tall. Bulb tunics hard, sharply acute at apex, dark brown. Leaves basal or terminally congested, with membranous wings on petiole near base, leaflets 3, broadly rotund, notched apically. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts near calyx, small, reddish purple or white, with a yellow tube, petals narrow, short and reflexed.
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