Bulb ovoid, 1--2 cm in diam.; tunic blackish brown, papery, appressed hairy inside distally. Stem 10--20 cm, glabrous. Leaves 2(or 3), much spaced or ± crowded, narrowly linear-lanceolate or linear, not or slightly overtopping flower, 0.2--1.5 cm wide, glabrous. Flower solitary. Tepals yellow; outer ones abaxially tinged with purplish green or dark violet, oblanceolate to obovate or lanceolate to oblong, 1.5--3 cm × 4--8 mm; inner tepals abaxially longitudinally streaked with purplish green at center, wider than outer ones, clawed at base. Inner stamens slightly longer than outer ones; filaments dilated proximally, gradually attenuate toward apex, glabrous. Style ca. 4 mm. Fl. May--Jun. 2 n = 24.
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