Small, stemless, hoary, tufted, densely cano-villose. Bulbs congested, surrounded by a mass of loose tunics: tunics papery, shining, blackish brown, the outer lanceolate, needle-pointed at the apex, splitting in the lower half, the inner paler and thinner. Rhizome short, slender. Leaves 9-15: petioles 1-2.5 cm long, dilated and squamiform below the basal articulation: leaflets 3, petiolulate, thin, cuneate, 1/5-1/6-incised,at the apex, usually conduplicate, glabrous above or cano-villose on both faces, ciliate, glaucous-grey, impresso-punctate when dried, the medial 6 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm broad, the lateral oblique, a little smaller. Peduncles 1-fld., 2-3 cm long, densely and retrorsely villose at the apex, with 2 alternate linear villose bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, ciliate, ecallose. Corolla 1.4-1.6 cm long, white, with a short broadly funnel-shaped yellow tube: laminae of the petals broadly cuneate-obovate, obliquely subtruncate at the apex, densely cano-pilose and rarely purple dotted on the outer margin beneath, about 3 times as long as the tapering claw. Filaments, the shorter 2-5-4-5 mm, the longer 4-7 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose, slightly gibbose. Ovary oblong, 1-5-2 mm long, cano-pilose on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers about 24-ovuled: styles sparsely pilose below, minutely glandular above. Seeds endospermous.
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Acaulescent, densely white-haired geophyte, 20-40 mm tall. Bulb tunics loose, acute at apex, shining, pale brown. Leaves spreading, leaflets 3, thin, cuneate, glabrous above or entirely hairy, deeply notched at apex, cells pitted when dry. Flowers 1 per peduncle with alternate bracts near calyx, white, with a yellow tube.
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