Oxalis aridicola T.M.Salter

Slender, caulescent, up to 13 cm high, pubescent, with longer glandular hairs admixed. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, about 2 cm long, with rigid blackish-brown tunics. Rhizome often 6-8 cm long. Stem 4-7 cm long, rarely branching, with 1-3 small scales. Leaves up to 18, apically congested, rarely 1-2 cauline; petioles slender 0.5-2 cm long; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, narrowly cuneate-obovate, slightly incised at the apex, sometimes conduplicate-falcate, usually about 8 mm long and 4 mm broad, glabrous above or pubescent on both faces, ciliate, often punctate with small, brown, inconspicuous calli toward the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., 1-3.5 cm long, twice as thick as the petioles, with 2 alternate filiform reddish-brown bracts on the upper half. Sepals lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, attenuate, 3-4 mm long, ciliate, with 2 elongate reddish apical calli. Corolla 1.5-2.5 cm long, pale violaceous, with a rather long, very narrowly funnel-shaped or subcylindrical glandular-pilose yellow tube; petals oblanceolate, attenuate to the base, 3-4 mm broad, glandular pilose on the outer margin beneath. Filaments, the shorter 6-9 mm, the longer 8.5-13 mm long, unequal, glabrous or minutely glandular-pilose, edentate. Ovary oblong, pubescent on the upper half, with elongate calli at the apex, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.