Corm ovoid to oblong, 1-3 x 1-2 cm, coat dark-brown, prolonged into 1-4 cm long tube. Leaves 2-5, appearing with the flowers, linear, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers usually 1-2, whitish with blue-violet stripes on the outside. Perianth segments lanceolate, obtuse, 2-3 cm long; the flower tube long, narrow. Stamens shorter than the perianth; anthers linear, c. 1 cm long, filaments c. 0.5 cm long. Styles 3, free, filiform, as long as or longer than the stamens. Fruit not seen.