Bulb broadly ovoid to subglobose, ca. 2.5 cm in diam.; scales white, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2--2.2 cm × 7--10 mm. Stem 60--90 cm, papillose. Leaves scattered, linear or linear-lanceolate, 4--7.5 cm × 4--7 mm, papillose at margin and on midvein abaxially, sometimes white pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers 1--3, nodding or suberect, campanulate. Tepals white, greenish, yellow, pink, or purple, often with purple to red spots; outer ones lanceolate, 6.5--8.3 × 1.4--1.8 cm; inner ones slightly wider; nectaries not papillose. Stamens converging; filaments ca. 3 cm; anthers ca. 1.6 cm. Ovary 1.7--2 cm × 2--4 mm. Style 2.2--2.6 cm. Capsule oblong, ca. 3.5 × 2.5 cm. Fl. Jun--Sep, fr. Sep--Oct.

Pinus forests, forested and grassy slopes, forest and thicket margins, grasslands, hillsides along streams; 1500--3800 m. Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan [Myanmar].