Caulescent, almost glabrous, up to 25 cm high. Bulb ovoid with a narrow apical beak longer than the bulb, in all 5-7 cm long: outer tunics papery, ash-coloured, attenuate and twisted at the apex. Stem stout, up to 14 cm long, 2 mm in diam., sometimes branching. Leaves numerous, apically congested on the stem and branches: petioles 2-4 cm long, scale-like below the basal articulation: leaflets 3, with short sparsely villose petiolules, triangular in outline, bilobed to the middle or beyond, 1-1-4 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, the oblong obtuse lobes 3- broad, or rarely broader. Peduncles 3-7-fid., about twice as long as the leaves: bracts linear, callose at the apex: pedicels 1-2 cm long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, with 2 elongate orange apical calli. Corolla 1-1.3 cm long, brick-red or salmon, with a broadly funnel-shaped yellow tube: petals cuneate, 5-6 mm broad. Filaments, the longer 3.5-5 mm long, glandular-pilose, gibbose or shortly toothed. Ovary glabrous, the chambers 2-3-ovuled: styles with pluricellular hairs. Capsule subglobose. Seeds endospermous.
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Caulescent geophyte, up to 0.25 m high. Bulbs ovoid with long apical beak, ash-coloured. Stem stout. Leaves apically congested, trifoliolate, leaflets bilobed to middle. Peduncles 3-7-flowered. Flowers brick-red or salmon with yellow tube. Flowering time Jan.-June.
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