Oxalis abercornensis R.Knuth

Perennial herb, acaulescent or nearly so, with a vertical rhizome up to 20 cm. long, but usually very short, arising from the top of an elongated bulb; bulb 2–5 cm. long, 0.6–1.3 cm. in diameter, with smooth parallel-veined brown scales.. Leaves 3-foliolate, 2–5, ± basal; petioles up to 20 cm. long, widening at the base for 1 cm. or more, pubescent to densely pilose; leaflets sessile, linear to oblong, widening to the deeply forked apex, 4–7 cm. long, 0.3–0.7 cm. wide, glabrescent above and hairy beneath, with clear venation, not obviously foveolate.. Flowers purple, in 4–25-flowered pseudumbels, borne on peduncles up to 25 cm. long, which arise from the leaf-rosette or from the axils of bracts below, pilose.. Bracts many, linear, up to 6 mm. long; pedicels up to 23 mm. long.. Sepals lanceolate, 4.5–8 mm. long, acute, sparsely hairy, with orange apical calli.. Petals up to 12(–14) mm. long, glabrous.. Long filaments hairy; short filaments glabrous.. Styles either longer than both stamen whorls (long-styled) and hairy or shorter than both (short-styled) and then glabrous.. Capsule shortly oblong, up to 5 mm. long, shorter than the sepals or sometimes as long.. Seeds up to 3 in each locule, reddish-brown, flattened and faintly transversely ridged.

It is a tropical plant.