A deciduous geophyte 90-200 mm tall when in flower. Tuber: a turnip-shaped, elongated or moniliform root, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 15-20 mm long and 6-18 mm in diameter. Leaves: radical, simple, seldom auriculate or trilobate, green; petiolate; lamina ovate, 15-44 x 9-30 mm, apex acute to rounded, base cuneate, margin entire, sometimes serrate, adaxially and abaxially covered with long very small-headed glandular hairs, abaxially appressed stiff hairs along main veins, margins ciliate with long and short patent hairs; petiole 20-45 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, prostrate, green, densely covered with very long glandular hairs and appressed curly hairs, sparsely interspersed with long soft patent hairs; stipules membranous, 7-10 mm long, 2 mm wide, subulate, almost completely adnate to petiole, ciliate. Inflorescence: scape 20-45 mm long, branched, bearing 2-3 pseudo-umbellets with 2-5 flowers each; peduncles 30-160 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, green to reddish brown, densely covered with long small-headed glandular hairs and distally appressed curly hairs; bracts rigid, patent, lanceolate, even in size, 6-7 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, abaxially densely covered with long glandular hairs. Pedicel: ca. 0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 45-58 mm long, 6.5-7.5 times the length of the sepals, reddish brown, densely covered with appressed curly hairs interspersed with long small-headed glandular hairs. Sepals 5, posterior one erect, others patent, 7.5-8.5 mm long, 1.5-3.5 mm wide, lanceolate, apices acute, reddish green in centre with pale green margins, indumentum abaxially as on hypanthium. Petals 5, pale yellow, spathulate, patent, flower bell-shaped during anthesis; posterior two slightly curved backwards, with dark pink feather-like markings, 17-23 x 6-8 mm, length/width ratio 2.5-3, apices emarginate; anterior three 16-21 x 6-6.5 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 2.5-3 mm long, lateral two 4-5 mm long, anterior two 5-6 mm long, shorter than the sepals; anthers 2-2.5 mm long, dark red, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 2.5 mm long; style filiform, 1 mm long; stigma branches recurved, 1-1.5 mm long, adaxially dark red. Fruit: bases of mericarps 6 mm long, without glandular hairs, tails 29 mm long.
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