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

Erect, caulescent, often caespitose, 7-15 cm high, usually densely clothed with both simple and pluricellular or bicellular viscous capitate hairs. Bulb, when mature, ovoid, attenuate-acute at the apex, up to 7 cm long, the younger often lanceolate in outline; tunics broadly lanceolate, sharply pointed, brown, shining, splitting at the base. Rhizome 10-15 cm long. Stem 4-10 cm long, with a few amplexicaul scales and often with a few subsessile leaves on the upper part. Leaves terminally congested, the outer petioles short, squamiform, the inner slender up to 2 cm long; leaflets 3, almost sessile, linear, linear-cuneate, oblong-cuneate or oblong-oval, slightly emarginate, often conduplicate, 6-9 mm long, glabrous above, adpressed-pubescent beneath, with capitate hairs on the midrib and margins, bicallose at the apex, minutely black-dotted. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal, 2-4 cm long, with 2 alternate linear bracts a little below the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, inconspicuously bicallose at the apex, often purple-margined. Corolla 1.5-2.5 cm long, deep rose, the narrowly funnel-shaped yellow tube with pluricellular hairs; laminae of the petals obovate, purple on the lower margin beneath, slightly shorter than the narrow-cuneate claw. Filaments glabrous or sparsely glandular-pilose, the longer 4-8 mm long, with longish narrow teeth. Ovary usually pilose on the upper half, the chambers 1-ovuled. Seeds without endosperm.