Oxalis macra Schltr.

Slender, caulescent, albo-puberulous, 8-14 cm high. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, 2-3 cm long, with soft papyraceous brown tunics. Rhizome slender, up to 10 cm long. Stem sometimes branched, up to 13 cm long, with conspicuous scales below, foliaceous on the upper part. Leaves cauline; petioles short, those of the lower leaves often squamiform, the uppermost longest, filiform, up to 1 cm long; leaflets 3, linear, conduplicate, subobtuse, 0.4-1 cm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, obscurely dotted. Peduncles 1-fld., axillary, mostly 1-3 cm long, with 2 alternate subulate bracts near the calyx. Sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sometimes attenuate, 4.5-5 mm long, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, pubescent, white or pale pink, with a broadish funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals obovate, often more or less bordered with greyish-purple on the outer margin beneath. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4 mm, the longer 4-7.5 mm long, sparsely pluricellular-pilose, edentate, the longest very unequal. Ovary 1 mm long, pubescent and furnished with 5 conspicuous reddish calli on the upper half, the chambers 1-ovuled; styles pubescent below, sparsely pluricellular-pilose above. Capsule sub-globose. Seeds without endosperm.