Ornamental plant.

Stemless herb forming basal bulbs, without rhizomes or stolons; bulbs globose to conic, ca 1 cm across, scaly; bulbils many, clustered, globose to ovoid, acute. Leaves basal, erect; petioles 8-30 cm long above basal joint, patently villous; leaflets subequal, broadly obcordate, 2-lobed; lobes rounded, sometimes overlapping, subglabrous above, puberulous beneath, orange-punctate on both surfaces especially near margin. Inflorescences often forked twice, pseudoumbelled, 2-12 flowered; peduncles 10-35 cm long; bracts many, elliptic, rounded, pale with strigose margin and often with 1-3 orange calli in middle; pedicels 2-2.5 cm long above basal joint, pubescent. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, minutely 2-fid at apex with 2 orange calli, 3.5-5 x 1-2 mm, puberulous, 3-5 nerved. Petals spatulate-oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to truncate, often oblique, light reddish purple with darker nerves. Filaments including basal connate portion 2-3 and 5-6 mm long in medium-styled flowers and 3.5-4 and 5-6 mm in short- styled ones; shorter filaments glabrous; longer ones strigose. Ovary ca 2 x 1 mm, densely ciliate to subglabrous; styles 1.8-2 mm long, ciliate-hairy; stigma 2-lobed, ca 1mm across, papillose; ovules 3-8 in each locule in 1 or 2 rows.

Cultivated in UAE as ornamental plant.