Acaulescent herb, with leaves and peduncles arising directly from the bulb; bulb ovoid, 7–15 mm. in diameter, with 1 or more thick roots up to 2 mm. wide and many other fibrous ones at the base; scales papery, but some of the outer ones striated and thickened with a starchy substance; stolons with membranous scales arise from the bulb and develop at the end a bulbil which eventually forms a new plant. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets widely obtriangular, up to 5 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, cuneate, shallowly emarginate at the apex so that the lobes are widely diverging, green, paler beneath, sparsely hairy or glabrate when mature with only a few hairs along the margins and midrib. Flowers light purple with a green throat, in 5- to over 20-flowered pseud-umbels borne on long peduncles, which usually exceed the petioles; bracts 2, widely ovate, 2 mm. long and 1.5–2 mm. wide, acute, papery, ciliate; pedicels up to 2 cm. long, glabrous. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm. long, acute, each with 2 orange apical calli which sometimes turn darkish brown in dried specimens. Petals falsely connate at the base, spathulate, up to 3 times as long as the sepals. Long filaments 5–6 mm. long, hairy in the upper half with 1 mm. long appendages on the outside; short filaments sparsely hairy or more often, glabrous. Styles shortly hairy, shorter than the 2 stamen whorls, thus flowers are short-styled; stigmas laciniate. Capsule elongate and glabrous; mature capsules not seen.
