Oxalis minuta Thunb.

Small, stemless, 5-10 cm high, almost glabrous. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, up to 1 cm long, with rather soft roughish brown tunics. Rhizome short. Leaves usually 2-6, with petioles 1-3 cm long; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, oval, obovate, or oblong, often 0.7-1.3 cm long, lightly emarginate, usually falcately conduplicate in open ground, larger, flat and tending to widen in shade, glabrous or more rarely distantly ciliate with longish deciduous hairs on the margins and medial nerve beneath. Peduncles few, 1-fld., 2-3 times longer than the leaves, with 2 alternate subulate bracts near the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, often reddish, minutely penicillate at the apex. Corolla 1.7-2.2 cm long, white, glabrous, with a narrowly funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals obovate, 7-8 mm broad, sometimes rosy on the outer margin beneath, about as long as the narrow claw. Filaments, the shorter 4-5 mm, the longer 5.5-7 mm long, glabrous or sparsely glandular-pilose, with rather acute teeth near the base, the short and medium (like the styles) spreading; anthers sagittate. Ovary callose and slightly pilose near the apex, the chambers 3-5-ovuled; styles glabrous, the longest only erect. Capsule not exserted. Seeds without endosperm. The Clanwilliam population flowers in November.