Bulbs 2-6, clustered, ovoid, outer coats reticulately fibrous. Scapes up to 20 cm tall. Leaves 2-3, filiform, convolute, margins and sheaths scabrid to minutely toothed. Spathe purplish, shortly acuminate. Tepals dark purple, 6-7 mm long, lanceolate, obtuse to acute. Filaments about half the length of the tepals, connate at the base, entire, outer narrowly triangular, inner broadly triangular; anthers mucronate. Style surrounded at the base by a toothed crown on top of the ovary.

Type: Buchara, Regel (LE).

Distribution: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.