A deciduous geophyte 110-300 mm tall when in flower. Tuber: a turnip-shaped or elongated root, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 15-40 mm long and 12-40 mm in diameter. Leaves: radical, simple, seldom auriculate or trilobate, green, petiolate; lamina ovate, 18-105 x 15-80 mm, apex acute to rounded, base cuneate to truncate, margin entire, seldom crenate, adaxially sparsely hirsute with appressed coarse hairs, abaxially sparsely hirsute with short appressed hairs, often restricted along main veins, margins sparsely ciliate with appressed coarse hairs; petiole 17-100 mm long, 1.5-3 mm in diameter, prostrate, green, hirsute with appressed hairs; stipules membranous, 7-11 mm long, 2 mm wide, subulate, apices attenuate, adnate to petiole, ciliate. Inflorescence: scape 10-60(-140) mm long, branched, bearing 2-8 pseudo-umbellets with 4-12 flowers each; peduncles 35-150 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, green to reddish brown, densely covered with long small-headed glandular hairs and long appressed curly hairs; bracts patent, lanceolate, attenuate, 5-6 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, abaxially densely hirsute with long appressed hairs. Pedicel: ca. 0.5 mm long. Hypanthium (20-)27-50 mm long, 3.5-5.5 times the length of the sepals, pale green, densely covered with appressed curly hairs interspersed with long, small-headed glandular hairs. Sepals 5, posterior one erect, others recurved, 7-11 mm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, lanceolate, apices acute, pale greenish brown, indumentum abaxially as on hypanthium. Petals 5, cream-coloured, pale yellow or yellow, spathulate to narrowly spathulate, patent, flower bell-shaped during anthesis; posterior two slightly curved backwards, with dark pink feather-like markings, 18-30 x 6-8 mm, length/width ratio 4.5-12, apices rounded to emarginate; anterior three 17-27 x 2-5 mm, apices rounded. Stamens 10, staminal column ca.1.5 mm long, smooth, white; perfect stamens 5, white, concealed in the floral sheath, posterior one 2-3 mm long, lateral two 3-4 mm long, anterior two 5-7 mm long, shorter than the sepals; anthers 1.5 mm long, pink, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 2.5-5 mm long; style filiform, 0.5-1.5 mm long; stigma branches recurved, 1-2 mm long, adaxially dark red. Fruit: bases of mericarps 7 mm long, with glandular hairs, tails 27-33 mm long.
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