Oxalis amblyodonta T.M.Salter

Robust, caulescent, up to 14 cm high, rather densely and coarsely pubescent. Bulb subglobose or ovoid, often 2 cm long, with hard blackish-brown tunics. Stem up to 5 cm long, densely hairy, with a few brown scales. Leaves 8-20, terminally congested; petioles up to 3 cm long, the outer shorter, often squamiform; leaflets 5-7, sessile, narrow-oblong or linear, usually conduplicate-falcate, obtuse, minutely emarginate or subacute, 0.6-1.1 cm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, glabrous above, villoso-pubescent beneath, ciliate. Peduncles 1-fld., rather numerous, terminal or 1-3 arising from the stem-scales, with 2 alternate linear pilose bracts near the calyx. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 8-9 mm long, hairy, ciliate, ecallose. Corolla lilaceous, 2.2-2.8 cm long, with a narrowly funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals obliquely obovate, a little longer than the claw, up to 1 cm broad, pubescent and faintly purple on the outer margin beneath. Filaments glabrous, the shorter 2.7-4 mm, the longer 4.5-9 mm long, the teeth broad, irregularly truncate. Ovary densely cano-pilose on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles cano-pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm. Form B. Leaflets 7-10, usually 9, linear, 1.3-1.5 cm long, about1 mm broad, conspicuously emarginate. Sepals narrower 1.1-1.2 cm long. Corolla 2.9-3.2 cm long, with a narrower tube.