Oxalis lichenoides T.M.Salter

Dwarf, stemless, glaucous, entirely glabrous, up to 3.5 cm high. Bulb ovoid or oblong, up to 1.4 cm long, 5-6 mm broad, conspicuously winged; tunics elliptical, longitudinally concave, brown, shining, the margins forming undulate crenate wings. Rhizome short, slender, shortly glandular-pilose above, the scales minute, the old bulbs often persisting above the living through the action of the contractile root. Leaves numerous; petioles slender, up to 2 cm long, like the peduncles subpellucid, sometimes exuding a red sap under pressure; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, glaucous, the epidermal cells large, impresso-punctate when dried, the medial broadly rotund, often attenuate at the base, sometimes slightly emarginate or retuse, up to 2.5 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, the lateral obliquely suborbicular, smaller and entire. Peduncles 1-fld., 1-3 cm long, longer than the leaves, with 2 small alternate membranous bracts near the apex. Sepals elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, submembranous, 3-4 mm long, ecallose. Corolla 1.2-1.4 cm long, white, with a short broadly funnel-shaped yellowish tube; petals very broadly cuneate, attenuate to the base but scarcely clawed, subtruncate at the apex, 6-9 mm broad. Filaments, the longest 7-7.5 mm long, glandular-pilose, gibbose or edentate, well exserted from the corolla tube. Ovary oblong, glabrous or sparsely glandular-pilose, the chambers many-ovuled; styles glabrous below, glandular above, (longistylar form not seen).