A deciduous geophyte 100-300 mm tall when in flower. Tuber a turnip-shaped or sometimes moniliform root with a short longitudinally compressed stem, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 14-30 mm long and 14-25 mm in diameter. Leaves radical, rosulate, simple, green, petiolate; lamina broadly ovate, apex rounded or obtuse, base cuneate, truncate or cordate, margin irregularly crenate, 16-90 x 12-100 mm; adaxially sparsely pilose, with short, sparse glandular hairs, abaxially densely pilose, with sparse glandular hairs; petiole 25-60 mm long and 2-5 mm in diameter, prostrate, densely pilose, with sparse glandular hairs; stipules subulate, adnate to petioles for half their length, 10-18 x 1-2 mm, ciliate, apices laterally curved. Inflorescence: scape 20-160 mm long, 2-5 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-8 pseudo-umbellets with (10-)17-45(-60) flowers each; peduncles 20-100 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, covered with short glandular hairs interspersed with long patent non-glandular hairs; bracts lanceolate, 6-7 x 1-2 mm, abaxially hirsute, with sparse glandular hairs; flower buds, flowers and fruits erect. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 20-30 mm long, pale reddish brown, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 5.0-8.5 x 0.8-2.5 mm, posterior one erect, others reflexed, pale reddish brown with margins white, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle. Petals 5, cream-coloured to pale yellow, patent during anthesis; posterior two ligulate or narrowly unguiculate-spathulate, with wine-red featherlike markings or small dots, bases cuneate, apices rounded or emarginate, 11-20 x 2-5 mm; anterior three patent, narrowly spathulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 8-13 x 1.5-3.2 mm. Stamens 7, basally connate, staminal column 1.5-2.5 mm long, white; perfect stamens 2, in the anterior position, 10-18 mm long, protruding from flower, curved upwards during anthesis, white; staminodes 1.5-4.0 mm long; anthers yellow, 1.0-1.5 mm long, pollen yellow. Gynoecium: ovary superior, oblong-conical, 4-or 5-lobed, 2-A mm long, densely sericeous; style filiform, 2.5-9.0 mm long, pink to pale pink; stigma with 4 or 5 branches, 0.3-0.5 mm long, adaxially dark pink. Fruit a schizocarp consisting of 4 or 5 mericarps, bases of mericarps 3-4 mm long, tails 21-25 mm long.
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Tuberous geophyte to 30 cm. Leaves sometimes dry at flowering, ovate, to 9 cm diam. Flowers to 60 on branching peduncles, ± 25 mm diam., pale yellow, upper petals somewhat spoon-shaped and larger, subsessile; hypanthium 20-30 mm long.
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