Oxalis falcatula T.M.Salter

Erect, caulescent, silky-pubescent, usually 10-18 cm high. Bulbs ovoid, attenuate-acute at the base and apex, 1.5-2 cm long, often congested; tunics hard, smooth, blackish, sharply acute at the apex. Rhizome up to 10 cm long. Stem 3-12 cm long with a few scales, rarely with 1-2 subsessile leaves. Leaves terminally congested, often somewhat tufted, with short petioles; leaflets 3, sessile, linear, conduplicate, falcate, sometimes minutely emarginate, 0.8-1.5 cm long, glabrous above, thinly silky-pubescent beneath, ciliate, ecallose. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal and also often arising from the axils of the stem-scales, with 2 alternate subulate pubescent bracts on the upper part. Sepals linear-lanceolate, somewhat attenuate or tapering regularly to the apex, 6-8 mm long, ecallose. Corolla 1.4-2.4 cm long, pubescent, pale rosy pink, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals obliquely and rather narrowly obovate, faintly purple along the outer margin beneath, slightly longer than the attenuate claw. Filaments, the shorter 2-3.5 mm, the longer 3-5 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose, with subobtuse teeth 0.1-0.2 mm long. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.