Plants 50-80 mm high. Corm ellipsoid, 10-15 x 7-12 mm with basal ridge 4-6 mm wide. Leaves 3 to 5, spreading, linear to lanceolate, plane or weakly conduplicate, 30-60 x 3-6 mm, ciliolate on margins, apices slightly thickened and boat-shaped. Flowers hypocrateriform, pale to deep violet or rarely white; perianth tube trumpet-shaped, widening in distal 5 mm, 25-35 mm long; tepals obovate, 15-20 x 8-10 mm, subacute. Stamens erect; filaments 5-6 mm long, white; anthers suberect, 5-7 mm long, yellow. Style 33-38 mm long, dividing near middle of anthers, branches 4-5 mm long, spathulate or lacerate. Capsules clavate or turbinate, 5-10 mm long. Seeds angled, ± 1.5 mm diam., brown, testa colliculate or partly foveolate.
Cormous geophyte, 5-8 cm, corm turbinate. Leaves 3-5, lanceolate, flattened and prostrate. Flowers violet, rarely white, tube 25-35 mm.