Rhizome subterete, ca. 7 mm thick. Leaves 2- or 3-tufted; petiole 12--21 cm, stiff; leaf blade green, sometimes sparsely yellowish spotted, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 18--32 × 7--12 cm, base rounded or nearly so. Scapes usually tufted, arching or horizontal, 2.5--4.6 cm; bracts 3--5. Flower solitary. Perianth purple, urceolate, 6-lobed apically; tube 0.9--1.2 × 1.4--1.8 cm; lobes suberect, ovate, 3--5 × 3--5 mm. Stamens 6, inserted at base of perianth tube, subsessile. Stigma peltate, orbicular, large, 0.9--1.5 cm in diam., slightly 6-lobed at margin. Fl. Jun.

Forests. ?SW Guangxi, SE Yunnan (Hekou Yao Zu Zizhixian) [Vietnam].