Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous. Stems 7-22 cm; bulbils in leaf axils white, globose, viviparous. Proximal stem leaves opposite; leaf blade ovate-spatulate. Distal stem leaves alternate; leaf blade spatulate-oblanceolate, 10-15 × 2-4 mm, base tapered, apex obtuse. Cyme 3-branched, many flowered; branches 2-forked. Flowers unequally 5-merous. Sepals free, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 1 mm, base shortly spurred, apex obtuse. Petals free, yellow, lanceolate, 4.5-5 × ca. 1.2 mm, apex mucronate. Stamens 10, ca. 3 mm. Nectar scales obovate, ca. 0.6 mm. Carpels basally connate for ca. 1 mm, apically divergent. Styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Apr-Jul.