Oxalis giftbergensis T.M.Salter

Erect, slender, caulescent, often caespitose, 6-20 cm high, clothed with both short simple and longer pluricellular capitate hairs. Bulb more or less ovoid or oblong, 2-3 cm long; tunics hard, black, gummy, not separable. Rhizomes 5-10 cm long, with a few scales. Stem leafy on the upper part only. Leaves cauline, either all subsessile with scale-like petioles, or the upper sometimes with filiform petioles up to 1.2 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, cuneate or linear-cuneate, falcate-conduplicate, emarginate, 3.5-9 mm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, glandular-pilose on the medial nerve and margins, ecallose. Peduncles 1-fld., in the axils of the middle leaves, 2-7 cm long, slender, with 2 alternate bracts on the upper half. Sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sometimes slightly attenuate, 2.5-4.5 mm long, often darkening at the apex, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-2.5 cm long, glandular-pilose, pink, violaceous or white, the tube sub-cylindrical, yellowish, with 5 narrow longitudinal lines on the upper part: laminae of the petals obliquely obovate, shorter than the very narrow claw. Filaments glabrous, the shorter 4.5-7 mm, the longer 8-11 mm long, dentate. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 1-ovuled; styles pubescent below, sparsely glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.