Stem simple, 1-to 3-flowered, up to 10 cm. Leaves few, 3-4½ mm long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate. At the base of the flowers an involucre, consisting of lanceolate, acute bracts. Perianth obconic-campanulate, white with 6 thin ochraceous-brown streaks, leading down from each perianth lobe, alternating with 6 thin yellow lines. Perianth tube about 10 mm, the basal part with transverse bars inside. Lobes triangular, 3-4 mm long, pale-yellow at the base, terminated by white, tentacles about 15 mm long. Annulus prominent, bright yellow. Anthers with 1 thick-filiform, median appendage and 2 lateral short teeth at the free apical margin; in the lower part of the anther, inserted at the middle of the connective, a broad, dorsal, quadrangular wing, wider than the anther. Thecae oblong, in the basal part of the anther; in the apical part 2 nectaries on the line of junction of one connective with the next. Ovary semi-globose, about 2 mm. Stigmas lanceolate, retuse, papillose. Capsule obconical, about 6 mm.
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