Oxalis fourcadei T.M.Salter

Stemless or with a short stem, hirsute, 4-6 cm high. Bulb oval, attenuate at the base and apex, up to 2 cm long, the outer tunics attenuate-acute, rigid, greyish brown, the inner brown. Rhizome 0.5-2.5 cm long, hirsute in the upper part. Stem none or up to 0.5 cm long, with 2-3 hirsute ciliate amplexicaul scales up to 9 mm long. Leaves 2-8, ascending; petioles 1-2 cm long, densely hirsute; leaflets 3, sessile, linear or narrow-oblong, 1-2.5 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, obtuse, the lateral slightly oblique, involute, ciliate, with numerous small orange dots, which turn black in drying, along the margins, hairy on both faces, smooth above, slightly impresso-punctate and often purple beneath and densely hirsute on the median nerve. Peduncles 1-fld., 1.5-3.5 cm long, hirsute, with 2 linear alternate reddish hirsute bracts towards the calyx, or rarely ebracteate. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 6-8 mm long, hirsute, purple-margined, particularly on the upper half, ecallose. Corolla 1.7-2 cm long, white with a yellow tube; laminae of the petals obovate, about 7 mm broad, slightly acute at the apex, with a few orange calli; claw slightly attenuate. Filaments pilose or almost glabrous, the shorter 2 mm, the longer 3-4.5 mm long, shortly toothed. Ovary pilose on the upper half, with 10 oblong calli towards the apex, the chambers 8-9-ovuled; styles more or less pilose. Brevistylar form not seen. Seeds endospermous.