Oxalis meisneri Sond.

Erect, caulescent, up to 16 cm high. Bulb ovoid or globose-ovoid, 1.5-3 cm long, with rather hard, dark brown tunics. Rhizome often 6-8 cm long, the scales completely or almost amplexicaul. Stem 2-12 cm long, sometimes branching, near the base, hirsute with simple hairs alone or with longer capitate hairs admixed. Leaves subsessile on the upper half of the stem, with very short scale-like petioles; leaflets 3, sessile, conduplicate or involute, sometimes slightly falcate, 0.5-1.2 cm long, entire at the subobtuse apex, pubescent or silky on both sides, rarely with a few capitate hairs beneath. Peduncles 1-fld., often fairly numerous, arising from the axils of the leaves or stem scales, 3-9 cm long, the lower longer than the upper, like the sepals pubescent, with or without longer capitate hairs admixed, with 2 alternate filiform bracts near the calyx. Sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sometimes attenuate, 7-9 mm long, ecallose. Corolla 1.6-2.5 cm long, yellow or pale violet, with a funnel-shaped pubescent tube; petals 0.6-1.1 cm broad, the obliquely obovate laminae pubescent on the outer margin beneath, about as long as the claw. Filaments, the shorter 3-4.5 mm, the longer 4-6.5 mm long, glandular-pilose on the upper part, with rather broad obtuse teeth. Ovary thickly pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 2-ovuled. Seeds without endosperm.