Oxalis haedulipes T.M.Salter

Slender, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, 15-20 cm high, the stem often exserted. Bulb narrow-ovoid, up to 3.5 cm long, with an acute apical beak; root contractile; tunics hard, pale brown or greyish, conspicuously longitudinally ridged. Stem slender, up to 10 cm long, with a few scales, or sometimes not exserted. Leaves fairly numerous, basal or apically congested, rarely 1-2 cauline; petioles very slender, usually 3-6 cm long, rarely longer; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, very broadly cuneate-obcordate or cuneate-bilobed, about 1/3 incised, 5-10 mm long, 0.7-1.4 cm broad, often livid below, the lobes rounded at the apex. Peduncles 1-6, 2-6-fld., 5-15 cm long; bracts small, lanceolate, orange callose at the apex; pedicels slender, usually 1-2 cm long, reflexed after flowering. Sepals lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent, with 2 small orange apical calli. Corolla 1.1-1.4 cm long, yellow, with a broadly funnel-shaped concolorous tube; petals cuneate, rounded at the apex, about 5 mm broad. Filaments, the longest 6 mm long, with both simple and capitate hairs, acutely toothed. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers about 10-ovuled; styles pubescent. Capsule elongate, 0.8-1 cm long, exserted beyond the calyx. Seeds endospermous.