Description
Herb up to 12 cm high. Root tubers 4 – 6 per plant, sessile, filiform, 5 – 14 cm long, ca. 4 mm thick with many fibrous root hairs. Leaves 6 – 8, all radical, distichous, sessile; leaf lamina 8 – 10 × 0.6 – 0.8 cm, conduplicate, keeled, glabrous, 11 – 13 veined, mid vein distinct, base sheathing, apex subacute, margin hyaline, serrulate towards the apex. Scape usually solitary, occasionally branched, 1 – 2.5 cm long, ca. 0.5 mm thick, terete, erect, originating in the axil of a leaf. Inflorescence a raceme, simple or branched, 4 – 10 cm long, 8 – 12 flowers. Bracts triangular, ca. 0.4 × 0.2 cm, persistent until fruit formation, apex acute, margin hyaline, main nerve ciliate on abaxial; bracteole triangular, 0.3 x 0.1 cm; pedicel 0.3 – 0.6 cm long, glabrous, elongating in fruit up to 0.8 cm. Perianth lobes 6, in two whorls, white, oblong, 0.45 – 0.15 cm, glabrescent, 3 nerved. Stamens 6, filaments 1 – 1.5 mm long, white, linear throughout, anthers 0.8 × 0.35 mm, yellow, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary globose, 1 mm, style 1.5 mm long; stigma minutely papillose at apex. Capsule triquetrous to 3-sulcate, ca. 0.5 × 0.6 cm, obcordate. Seeds 1 – 2 in each cell, 2 x 2.2 mm, orbicular, discoid, black, shiny, testa echinate.