Plants 8-15 cm tall. Corm more or less ovoid, 8-15 mm diam., covered by fine, brown, fibrous tunics; fibres reticulate, firmly attached to basal disc, slightly spreading distally, tips shortly acuminate; cormlets sometimes produced near base; roots slender, mostly straight, arising from corm proximally. Cataphylls membranous, persisting as a dark brown, papery neck up to ca. 15 mm long. Leaves 5-8, sheathing proximally for up to ca. 25 mm, more or less recurved, narrowly lorate, 100-180 x 2-4 mm, carinate, pale green, thin-textured, margin entire. Inflorescences 1 or 2 in flower at a time, (1)2-flowered, slightly shorter to longer than leaves; scape 30-60 x 1 mm, somewhat compressed laterally, pale green; bracts 2, clasping pedicels at base, linear, 10-15 x 0.5 mm, translucent with pale green midrib. Flowers pedicellate, stellate, yellow, rarely white, backed with pale green in both whorls, unscented; pedicels suberect, subterete, 15-80 x 1 mm, spreading when fruiting, pale green; tepals (4)6, sometimes slightly reflexed, narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 5-9 mm long, outer 2.5-3.0 mm wide, mucronate apically; inner 1.5-2.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, equal or outer slightly shorter than inner, suberect to slightly spreading, yellow; filaments inserted on ovary rim, outer 2.0-2.5 mm long, inner 2.5-3.0 mm long, shorter than or equalling anthers; anthers oblong, latrorse 2.0-3.5 mm long, basal lobes up to 0.3 mm long, apex emarginate, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary narrowly obconical, ca. 3.0 x 1.5 mm, 3-locular; style ca. 1.5 mm long; stigma branches erect, slender, 2.5-3.5 mm long, slightly shorter or equalling stamens, closely cohering, extended into 3 prominently outspread or down-turned, adaxially grooved lobes from branch clefts, branch tips somewhat capitate distally, basal lobes and distal apices papillose, otherwise smooth, yellow. Capsules obconical, 2.5-5.0 x 2.0-2.5 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds depressed ovoid, 0.51 x 0.49 mm, blackish brown, densely colliculate.
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Perennial geophyte, 80-150 mm high; corm covered by fine reticulate brown fibres. Leaves 5-8, softly arching above, 2-4 mm wide, V-shaped in transect. Flowers 2 per scape, star-shaped; tepals 7.0-8.5 mm long, yellow with green backs; stigma branches slender with 3 distinctly recurved basal lobes and 3 capitate apical lobes; bracts 2, linear. Flowering time Jan.-May.
Delicate, cormous geophyte to 15 cm, corm tunics soft, brown. Leaves 5-8, spreading, narrow, keeled, thin-textured. Flowers 2(1), stellate, small, yellow, with pale green beneath, stigma branches slender, swollen at apex, with 3 slender downturned extensions from their base, bracts 2, linear.
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