Stemless, rather robust, up to 16 cm high, entirely glabrous. Bulb globose-conical, often deformed, attenuate-acute at the apex, about 2 cm long, with rather hard pale brown tunics. Rhizome 30-40 cm long or more, with a brown tunicaceous cortex, very slender towards the base. Leaves 13, simple, procumbent, with petioles 3-5 mm long: lamina sub-orbicular, broadly elliptical or ovate, sometimes very slightly incised at the apex, usually 2-4 cm long, somewhat glaucous-green above, rich brownish-purple beneath. Peduncles several, 1-fld., 5-14 cm long, with 2 alternate bracts on the upper half. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 7 mm long, often dark-edged, sometimes indistinctly callose towards the apex. Corolla 1.8-3.5 cm long, yellow or more rarely white, the yellow funnel-shaped tube often purple-streaked about the throat: laminae of the petals obliquely cuneate-obovate, very obliquely sub-truncate, rather longer than the tapering claw. Filaments sparsely glandular-pilose, the shorter 3.5-5 mm, the longer 5.5-9 mm long, edentate. Ovary oblong, 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous, with numerous elongate orange striae and dots on the upper part, the chambers 5-6-ovuled: styles with a few simple hairs at the base, shortly glandular-pilose above. Capsule elongate, twice as long as the sepals. Seeds without endosperm.
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Acaulescent geophyte, up to 160 mm tall. Bulb tunics hard and pale brown. Leaves prostrate in a basal cluster, simple, blade suborbicular to elliptical, sometimes slightly incised at apex, brownish-purple beneath. Flowers 1 per peduncle, yellow or rarely white with a yellow tube and purple-streaked near throat.
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