Stem simple, 1-7½ cm, bearing 1-3 flowers. Leaves few, lanceolate, acute, about 5 mm. At the base of the flowers an involucre, consisting of ovate-lanceolate, acute, 5-7 mm long bracts. Perianth urceolate to obconical, about 8 mm long, inside with longitudinal bars, connected by many transverse bars; tube transparent, white with 6, vertical, red streaks in the apical part. Perianth lobes pale red. Outer lobes very short, about ½ mm, ear-shaped; inner ones triangular, about 1 mm, terminating in up to 3 cm long, thin, filiform tentacles. Annulus prominent, yellow. Anthers slightly 3-toothed at the apical free margin, the lateral teeth somewhat larger than the median one, each tooth terminating in an indistinct, very thin, fragile hair. On the outer side of the anther, inserted in the middle, a quadrangular strigose appendage, wider than the stamen. Style thick, conical; stigmas lanceolate, obtuse. Fruit stalk lengthening above the involucre.