[4] It has 3–4 glabrous (smooth), linear shaped leaves,[5] which are sometimes longer than flowers and stems.

[5] It has a green and acuminate (tapering to a long point) shaped spathes, (leaves of the flower bud).

[2] It has a perianth tube equal to length of the limb,[2][5] and style branches that have oblong lobes.

[2] It was discovered by botanists in 1884 in Turkestan, and then published by Eduard August von Regel in the Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo botanicheskogo sada (Transactions of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden) between 1884 and 1885, on page 677.

[7][8] The plant is named after Konstantin George Alexander Winkler (14 June 1848 - 3 February 1900), a botanist from the University of Tartu in Estonia.