Plants 3.5-9.5 cm. tall; root system tuberous; stem erect, fleshy, leafless, 1-flowered; flower erect, without its appendages about 13 mm. long, with 4 ovate-lanceolate basal bracts up to 4 mm. long; perianth about 9 mm. long, urceolate-campanulate, very zygomorphic; inner lobes ovate, tapering at the apex to filiform appendages about 35-40 mm. long; outer lobes reflexed, ovate, rounded, without apical filiform appendages; faucal annulus prominently 3-lobed, alternating with the inner perianth lobes; anthers hanging, alternating with small triangular ap-pendages; filaments broad, connate at their insertion with the triangular append-ages into a short tube; thecae oblong, parallel; connective sagittate above the thecae, bilobed below the anthers; ovary about 2 mm. long, obovate; placentas parietal, inserted on very short stalks; style thick-filiform, conical at the base, papillose in its lower part, hairy at the apex, and there divided into 3 linear stigmas; fruit fleshy, obconical, about 3 mm. long, crowned by the persistent perianth tube and style; seeds numerous, shorter than the funicles.
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