Oxalis bifida Thunb.

Caulescent, with a weak erect or procumbent branching stem. Bulb ovoid, acute or sometimes beaked at the apex, 2.5-7 cm long; tunics papyraceous, reddish-brown, the outer sometimes glandular-pilose. Stem up to 30 cm long, with several long alternate suberect branches arising in the axils of the stem scales. Leaves congested at the apices of the stem and branches; petioles slender, often 1.5-2.5 cm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose; leaflets 3, petiolulate, euneate-triangular, bifurcate to the middle or a little beyond, the medial often 5-6 mm long and broad, the lateral a little smaller with unequal lobes, glabrous above, often sparsely pilose beneath, with elongate black calli dispersed along the margins, the lobes tapering, obtuse, 1 mm broad. Peduncles 1-fld., 2.5-8 cm long, pubescent above, with 2 small opposite callose bracts at an articulation above the middle. Sepals narrow-ovate, obtuse, 5 mm long, pubescent, often purple-margined, with several elongate calli about the apex and upper margins. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, rosy, with a broadly funnel-shaped greenish tube; petals obliquely cuneate, rounded at the apex, scarcely attenuate into a claw, 6-10 mm broad, pubescent and narrowly edged with purple on the outer margin beneath. Filaments pubescent, the shorter 2.5-4.5 mm, the longer 4.5-7 mm long, obtusely toothed. Ovary pubescent near the apex, with elongate orange-red apical calli, the chambers 1-2 ovuled; styles pubescent with simple and glandular hairs. Seeds endospermous.

It is a subtropical plant.

The roots are eaten fresh or boiled with milk.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.