Lax, stemless, up to 10 cm high. Bulb narrow-ovoid, attenuate at the base, shortly rostrate at the apex, the tunics coarsely veined, dark brown. Leaves up to 15, suberect: petioles slender, 3-8 cm long, with long weak pluricellular hairs, articulated 6-8 mm from the base, dilated and the outer shortly stipulate below the articulation: leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, the medial very broadly rotund above, shortly and abruptly attenuate to the base, 5-8 mm long, 7-12 mm broad, glabrous and impresso-punctate on both faces when dried, sometimes glandular-ciliate, ecallose. Peduncles 1-fld., rather slender, as long as to twice as long as the leaves, like the sepals pilose with long weak pluricellular hairs, with 2 alternate linear bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals broadly lanceolate, acute, 4.5-5 mm long, ciliate, ecallose. Corolla white, up to 1.7 cm long: tube yellow. Capsule oval, not longer than the calyx. Seeds endospermous.
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A small herb. It does not have stems. The leaves and flower stalks arise from a bulbs. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets on a long stalk. The leaflets are rounded. The flowers are 20 mm long. They occur singly and are tube shaped. They are white or pink. The fruit is an oval capsule.
Acaulescent geophyte, up to 0.1 m high. Bulbs narrow ovoid, coarsely veined, dark brown. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets broadly rotund, with swollen epidermal cells. Flowers white with yellow tube. Flowering time Mar.?.
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