Stemless, 15-20 cm high. Bulb ovoid, shortly beaked, up to 2.5 cm long, the outer tunics hard, very pale brown, with raised longitudinal nerves. Rhizome 15-20 cm long, the bulbils sessile. Leaves few or many: petioles 4-10 cm long, sparsely villous: leaflets 3, with very short villous petiolules, very broadly obcordate, about 1/4 incised, thin, 1-1.4 cm long, 1.2-1.8 cm broad, almost glabrous, sparsely ciliate. Peduncles 12-18 cm long, very sparsely villous below, glandular-pilose near the apex: bracts linear: pedicels 3-7, up to 2.5 cm long, glandular-pilose. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, glandular-pilose, with rusty linear pustulate apical calli about 1 mm long. Corolla 1.5-1.7 cm long, pale violaceous, the funnel-shaped greenish-yellow tube often paler in the throat: petals narrow-cuneate, about 4 mm broad. Filaments, the shorter 2-3-5 mm, the longer 3-6-5 mm long, pubescent, gibbose, the longest unequal. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers 2-4-(usually 4-)ovuled: styles pubescent. Capsule about 6 mm long, not or scarcely exserted. Seeds with very thin endosperm and a green embryo.
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Acaulescent geophyte, up to 0.2 m high. Bulbs ovoid, shortly beaked with ridged tunics, pale brown. Leaves basally congested, trifoliolate, leaflets broadly obcordate. Peduncles 3-7-flowered. Flowers lilac with greenish tube. Flowering time Jan.-May.
Acaulescent geophyte to 20 cm, bulb shortly beaked with ridged tunics. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets obcordate. Flowers 3-7 per peduncle, lilac with greenish tube.
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