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Stem usually dichotomously branched near the top, the branches more or less divaricate. Basal leaf single (or rarely two in young plants, the first leaf then shorter than the second), filiform or somewhat 4-angled, 1-2 mm wide, with the two lateral ribs narrower than the two median ones, grooves narrow or wide. Bracts green, inner with wide membranous margins which are colourless in the lower half and reddish brown in the upper. Flowers pink or rarely salmon-pink, with 1-3 pink-purple veins in the throat, cup greenish or golden-yellow with V-shaped marks, outer segments on the backs mostly with 3-5 reddish brown veins and fine feathered veining. Capsules on straight, patent peduncles.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.10-0.35 m high; stem erect, usually dichotomously branched above. Leaves 2 or 3, basal 1, narrowly 4-grooved, sometimes minutely hairy. Bracts green, narrowly triangular, margins membranous. Flowers 1-4, pink; cup yellowish; perianth tube 3-5 mm long, funnel-shaped, minutely pilose at base; tepals 16-32 mm long, elliptic or obovate, subobtuse to acute. Stamens erect; filaments 4-8 mm long, golden-yellow, ± pilose in lower half; anthers 4-7 mm long, yellow with dark longitudinal lines. Style 10-15 mm long; stigma ± 1 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Capsule cylindrical.
Cormous geophyte to 35 cm, corm with an oblique basal ridge, fibrils convergent in clusters, stem branching divaricately above ground, often ciliate. Basal leaf usually solitary. Flowers pink to salmon with yellowish cup.
