Oxalis marlothii Schltr. ex R.Knuth

Stemless, up to 19 cm high. Bulb 1 cm broad, more or less rotund; bulbils shortly beaked, lanate. Rhizome long, slender, pubescent. Leaves basal, many; petioles glabrous, 3-12 cm long; leaflets 3, broadly obcordate or triangular-obcordate, up to 1 cm long, 1.3 cm broad, broadly incised at the apex, glabrous above, sparsely adpressed-pubescent beneath. Peduncles many, 1-fld., 8-18 cm long, adpressed-pubescent with minute ascending hairs on the upper part, subglabrous below; bracts 5-7 mm long, opposite, at an articulation a little below the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acute, usually 7-8 mm long, adpressed-pubescent with minute ascending hairs, glabrescent towards the margins, eciliate, ecallose. Corolla 2.5-3(?) cm long, glabrous, rosy-violet (dried), with a widely funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals subcuneate, attenuate below, rounded or obliquely subtruncate at the apex. Filaments, the longer pubescent, toothed. Ovary cylindrical, 3 mm long, shortly stipitate, minutely pubescent on the upper part, callose at the apex, the chambers several-ovuled; styles densely, pubescent (longistylar form only seen).