Oxalis algoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

Small, stemless, 4-12 cm high, hirsute on the herbaceous parts. Bulb ovoid, attenuate, up to 2 cm long, with rather hard brown imbricating tunics. Leaves usually 6-12; petioles often 2-5 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, rather thick, with a narrow cartilaginous margin, glabrous above, hirsute below, ciliate, impresso-punctate on both faces and sometimes undulate on the margin when dried, the medial oblanceolate, elliptic-oblong, obscurely rhomboid, obovate or rotund, always tapering cuneately at the base, 0.7-3 cm long, the lateral from obliquely oblong to obliquely rotund, rather smaller. Peduncles 1-fld., rather longer than the leaves, usually alternately bibracteate near the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 6-9 mm long, densely hirsute, often purpurescent on the margins. Corolla up to 2.3 cm long, violaceous, lilac or white, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals subcuneate, slightly attenuate into a claw, 6-9 mm broad, with an acute point at the apex. Filaments glandular-pilose, the longer with rather long subacute teeth. Ovary glabrous or glandular on the upper half, with vermilion calli at the apex, the chambers several-ovuled; styles pilose with long simple and short glandular hairs admixed. Seeds endospermous.