Oxalis creaseyi T.M.Salter

Small, glaucous, sericeous, shortly caulescent, 3-4 cm high. Bulb narrow-ovoid, attenuate at the apex, up to 1.5 cm long, the outer tunics papery, brown. Rhizome 4-6 cm long, scaly, sheathed in a soft brown cortex. Bulbils produced inversely at the apices of descending stolons or runners, which arise both from the rhizome and the bulb. Stem erect, sericeous, 0.5-1 cm long, with a few amplexicaul brown scales. Leaves densely imbricate towards the apex of the stem; petioles up to 6 mm long, the outer squamiform; leaflets 3, sessile, linear, involute-conduplicate, 0.6-1 cm long, glaucous, glabrous above, inconspicuously callus-dotted, silky with adpressed hairs beneath, ciliate, subacute and penicillate at the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., axillary, 3-7 mm long, sparsely sericeous, with 2 alternate linear rubro-callose bracts imbricating the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, sparsely hairy, penicillate, narrowly purple-margined, with several elongate apical calli. Corolla about 1.8 cm long, white, with a pale yellow funnel-shaped tube; petals obovate, attenuate to a short claw or sub-cuneate, sub-rotund at the apex, with minute red calli near the anterior margin. Filaments glabrous or very sparsely glandular, the shorter 3-7 mm, the longer 6-10 mm long, edentate, the longest unequal. Ovary cano-pubescent on the upper half, with vermilion calli near the apex, the chambers 1-2-(usually 2-ovuled); styles glabrous or very sparsely pubescent. Seeds without endosperm.