Oxalis dilatata L.Bolus

Dwarf, stemless, 4-7 cm high, almost glabrous. Bulb subfusiform, sometimes slightly angled, up to 1.7 cm long, 6 mm diam., with brown acuminate tunics. Rhizome slender, usually rather short. Leaves 4-6, somewhat erect: petioles up to 2 cm long, stipulately winged below the articulation; leaflets 3, rather fleshy, with large epidermal cells, impresso-punctate on both faces when dried, the medial very broadly cuneate-rotund, often emarginate, 5-7 mm long, 6-9 mm broad, the lateral oblique, rather smaller, entire. Peduncles 1-fld., up to 6 cm long, with 2 small alternate linear bracts on the upper part. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, 2-3 broadened with 2 blunt lateral spurs at the base, 4-6 mm long, glabrous or ciliate, purple-striate, sometimes penicillate, often indistinctly bicallose at the apex. Corolla 1-1.8 cm long, yellow or reddish, with a rather widely funnel-shaped tube; petals subcuneate, rounded at the apex. Filaments glabrous or minutely glandular-pilose, edentate, the longest 7 mm long. Ovary glabrous, the chambers several-ovuled.