Oxalis campylorrhiza Salter

Caulescent, viscous, sparsely branched, up to 15 cm high, clothed with capitate, often pluricellular hairs. Bulb globose or depressed-globose, praemorse at the base, the conical apex obliquely or even horizontally deflexed, up to 2 cm high, 3 cm broad; tunics imbricating, subrigid, brown, splitting at the base, attenuate and sharply acute at the apex. Rhizome 5-10 cm long. Stem erect, sometimes bifurcate, 2-12 cm long, frequently with short branchlets. Leaves rather numerous, apically congested on the stem or branchlets, rarely 1-2 cauline; petioles up to 2.5 cm long; leaflets 3, obcordate, sometimes broadly subcuneate at the base, rather thin, pinnately veined, 0.5-1 cm long, 5-9 mm broad, glabrous above, with pluricellular hairs beneath and on the margins, the medial shortly petiolulate, the lateral sessile. Peduncles 1-6, 1-fld., terminal, 2-7 cm long, with 1-2 slender bracts above the middle, rarely ebracteate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, sharply acute, 3-6 mm long, ciliate, rarely rubro-callose at the apex, often minutely purple-dotted. Corolla 1.3-2.2 cm long, white or rarely pale rose, with short widely funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals obliquely cuneate-obovate, slightly attenuate to the base, obliquely sub-truncate, 6-10 mm broad, purple at the extreme base, glandular-ciliate and often purple-dotted or streaked on the outer margin. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4 mm, the longer 4-7 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose below, glabrous above, shortly and obtusely toothed. Ovary on the upper half, like the styles, glandular or pluricellular-pilose, the chambers 2-3-ovuled. Capsule subglobose. Seeds without endosperm.