Plants to 4 cm high. Leaves three, lanceolate. Flowers one to three, yellow, tepals spreading, blades slender and thread-like but conspicuously eared at the top of the claw, 5-6 mm long, claw c. 1 mm long, filaments c. 0.8 mm long, anthers 0.2 mm long, styles c. 0.5 mm long.
Cormous geophyte to 4 cm. Leaves 3, lanceolate, the uppermost small and subtending the lowest flower. Flowers minute, sessile in short spikes, yellow, tepals attenuate, free, styles free, hooked.