Oxalis gracilipes Schltr.

Erect, caulescent, 5-11 cm high. Bulb ovoid or globose-ovoid, acute at the apex, about 1.5 cm long; tunics areolate, the inner hard, chestnut-brown, shortly needle-pointed, the outer papyraceous, pale. Rhizome slender, 3-6 cm long. Stem rather rigid, 2-7 cm long, sparsely pubescent, sometimes with gland-tipped hairs admixed, with 1-4 pubescent ciliate scales. Leaves 5-15, apically congested, or very rarely 1-2 cauline; petioles usually 1-2 cm long, pubescent, often with a few gland-tipped hairs admixed; leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, linear or linear-cuneate, broadened at the apex, conduplicate, slightly falcate, emarginate, 0.5-1.1 cm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, bicallose at the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal, 3-6 cm long, sparsely pubescent, sometimes with gland-tipped hairs admixed on the upper part, with 2 minute alternate bracts towards the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, often slightly attenuate, 4-6 mm long, sometimes with gland-tipped hairs on the lower part, purplish, with 2 small reddish apical calli (black and almost invisible when dry). Corolla up to 2 cm long, white, with a yellow tube; laminae of the petals obliquely obovate, sometimes obscurely buff on the outer margin beneath, slightly longer than the claw. Filaments, the 7 shorter 2-3 mm, the longer 3-6 mm long, unequal, minutely glandular-pilose, with rather acute teeth. Ovary pilose on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 1-2-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.