Bulb subglobose, ca. 2.2 cm in diam.; scales purple-red, lanceolate, 1.7--2.2 cm × ca. 6 mm. Stem 35--50 cm, papillose. Leaves 5--8-whorled plus a few scattered, obovate-oblanceolate or elliptic, 4.5--6 × 1.7--2.2 cm. Flowers 1--3, campanulate. Tepals yellow, dark purple at base adaxially, unspotted, elliptic, 5--6 × 2--2.4 cm, smooth. Stamens much shorter than tepals; filaments ca. 2.5 cm, glabrous; anthers oblong, ca. 1.3 cm × 2 mm. Ovary ca. 1.4 cm × 3 mm. Style ca. 2.5 cm; stigma capitate, ca. 8 mm in diam. Fl. Jun.

* Rocky openings in Abies forests. SE Xizang (Mêdog Xian).