Oxalis attaquana T.M.Salter

Erect, with an exserted stem, up to 13 cm high, clothed on many parts with long hyaline pluricellular hairs. Bulb ovoid, attenuate, at the apex, 1.5-
 long with a contractile root; tunics blackish-brown, longitudinally ribbed. Stem simple or bifurcate, glabrous, with several large brown ovate or ovate-lanceolate cuspidate amplexicaul scales from 2-7 mm long. Leaves 8-24, congested or loosely imbricate on the upper part of the stem; petioles up to 3 cm long, squamiform below the basal articulation; leaflets 3, the medial shortly petiolulate, the lateral sessile, obreniform, attenuate at the base, up to 5 mm long, 9 mm broad, the lobes rounded at the apex, rather fleshy, conspicuously impresso-punctate when dried, glabrous above, sparsely ciliate with pluricellular and admixed capitate hairs on the margins and mid-rib beneath. Peduncles 1-fld., axillary, about twice as long as the leaves, with 2 alternate linear bracts above the middle. Sepals broadly lanceolate, subobtuse, about 5 mm long, ecallose, often purplish. Corolla 1.6-2 cm long, rose, with a narrowly funnel-shaped pluricellular-pilose yellow tube; petals obliquely cuneate, slightly attenuate at the base, rounded at the apex, 5-8 mm broad. Filaments glandular-pilose, the shorter 3-5.5 mm, the longer 5-8 mm long, unequal, edentate. Ovary glandular-pilose on the upper part, the chambers 8-ovuled; styles glandular pilose.