Plants 3-9.5 cm tall. Corm somewhat ovoid, 10-15 mm diam., covered with brown, fibrous tunics; fibres firmly attached to basal disc, pectinate proximally, reticulate distally, tips more or less extended into an untidy, sparse bristly neck. Leaves 2 or 3, not forming a sheathing neck, suberect, linear, 35-90 x 1.5 mm, compressed terete, sometimes appearing canaliculate when dry, wiry, margin rarely with a few scattered, red, recurved teeth. Inflorescences 2-flowered, shorter to as long as leaves; scape up to 30 x 1 mm; bracts 2, clasping pedicels up to narrowed apex, lanceolate, abruptly narrowed at apex, 13-18 x 1.5-3.0 mm, pale green, leathery, margin narrowly membranous proximally. Flowers bright yellow or white with a large, yellow centre, backed with green, occasionally edges of outer tepals reddened; pedicels erect to spreading, more or less deflexing when fruiting, 23-45 x 1.0-1.3 mm; tepals narrowly elliptic, 10-17 mm long, outer 4.5-5.0 mm wide, inner 3.0-3.5 mm wide. Stamens suberect, outer slightly shorter than inner, yellow; filaments shorter than anthers, outer 0.7-1.5 mm long, inner 1.2-2.0 mm long; anthers oblong, 2.5-3.5 x 0.5 mm. Ovary shortly obconical, 2.5-4.0 x 2.0-2.5 mm; style 1.0-1.5 mm long; stigma branches suberect, oblong, 2.0-3.5 x 0.5-0.6 mm, equalling stamens, yellow. Capsules curved, obconical, ca. 6 x 3 mm. Seeds unknown.
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