Stemless, rather weak, 10-20 cm high, sometimes heterophyllous, entirely glabrous or with a few weak, simple or glandular hairs. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, often, about 2 cm long: tunics few, rather thin, reddish-brown: root contractile. Leaves 2-20, but usually few, with slender petioles 5-18 cm long: leaflets 3, polymorphous, sometimes heterophyllous on the same plant, very shortly petiolulate, bilobed to the middle or below, or even more frequently nearly to the base, varying from very broadly cuneate-obcordate or attenuate.-obcordate to triangular in outline, commonly 1-4.5 cm long, the sinus rounded or acute, the lobes sub-obovate, oblong, linear or narrow-linear, the narrow lobes forked, acute and much longer than the broad ones, often rather prominently veined, rarely undulate at the margins. Peduncles 1-fld., as long as or rather longer than the leaves, with 2 subulate opposite bracts at an articulation above the middle. Sepals lanceolate, with 2 orange-red apical calli. Corolla 1.7-2.5 cm long, pale lilac or white, with a rather broadly funnel-shaped greenish tube: petals cuneate-obovate or subcuneate, sometimes more or less attenuate into a short claw below, rounded at the apex, 0.7-1.4 cm broad. Filaments glandular-pilose, often with simple hairs admixed, the shorter 2.5-4.5 mm, the longer 4.5-6.5 mm long, with, prominent teeth. Ovary, more or less glandular, the chambers about 8-ovuled: styles glandular-pilose. Capsule oblong, 1-1.5 cm long, exserted beyond the calyx. Seeds endospermous.
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Stemless, perennial herb, up to 200 mm high. Tunics a few, thin. Leaflets bifurcate to middle or below, lobes linear, 10-45 mm long, ecallose. Flowers: peduncle 1-flowered; bracts 2, arising from an upper articulation on peduncle; sepals with 2 orange-red apical calli; petals pale lilac or white, tube greenish, 17-25 mm long; Aug.-Apr.
A herb. The bulb is 3.5 cm long. There are only a few leaves. The stalk is 9 cm long. The leaflets have deeply divided lobes. They are about 2 cm long by 3 mm wide. The flowers occur singly on stalks 12 cm long. The petals are mauve or white. They are 2 cm long.
Stemless herb, up to 200 mm tall. Bulb not acutely angled or pitted. Leaves basal, compound with 3 leaflets, leaflets bifurcate to middle or below. Peduncle 1-flowered. Flowers pale lilac or white, tube greenish.
Acaulescent geophyte, up to 0.2 m high. Bulbs ovoid, reddish brown. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets variably bilobed, often to near base. Flowers lilac or white with greenish tube. Flowering time Jan.-Aug.
Acaulescent geophyte. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets bilobed to near base. Flowers lilac or white with greenish tube, peduncle articulated.
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