Oxalis comosa E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.

Tall, shade-loving, caulescent, branching, 30-80 cm high. Bulb elongate, ovoid or lanceolate in outline, produced at the apex into a long beak, in all 10-13 cm long; tunics brown, shining, pilose with short setose and capitate hairs, conspicuously undulate, those of the beak narrow-lanceolate smooth, acute. Rhizome often 30 cm long, with a few large scales on the upper part, clothed below with the persisting tunics of the old bulbs, through the action of the contractile root. Stem stout, often 3 mm in diam. at the base, almost glabrous, with many alternate branches. Leaves numerous, terminally congested on the stem and branches and often some cauline; petioles 2-8 cm long, glabrous or thinly pilose, dilated and squamiform below the articulation; leaflets 3, sessile, very broadly cuneate-obcordate, bilobed to about the middle, sometimes tapering attenuately to the base, up to 0.9 cm long, 1.4 cm broad, the lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pilose beneath, often with 2 or more inconspicuous large brownish calli near the upper margin. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal, stout, often numerous, 3-4 cm long, more or less pubescent on the upper part, deflexing at the bibracteate articulation towards the apex after flowering. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 7-9 mm long, more or less pubescent, ciliate, rarely bicallose at the apex. Corolla 2-2.5 cm long, pale rose, with a rather short broadly funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals broadly and obliquely cuneate, sub-truncate, scarcely attenuate below. Filaments, the shorter 3-5.5 mm, the longer 5-8.5 mm long, unequal, with long teeth. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers several-ovuled; styles pubescent, often glandular-pilose towards the apex. Seeds endospermous.