Oxalis oligotricha Baker

Perennial herb, acaulescent or sometimes with a distinct aerial stem up to 15 cm. long, with a vertical rhizome up to 12 cm. long arising from the top of the bulb; bulb up to 1.3–4 cm. long and 1.2 cm. in diameter, the scales broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, brown, smooth with parallel veins; rhizome with membranous scales 2–3 mm. long, which continue asgreen cauline bracts and sometimes subtend the peduncles.. Leaves 3-foliolate, in a rosette and either basal or high up on the stem, long-petiolate; leaflets very variable in form and size, broadly ovate, obovate or ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute to obtuse at apex, almost glabrous or sparsely hairy above and softly so beneath, ciliate at the margin.. Flowers purple or blue, in pseudumbels; peduncle 10–15 cm. long; bracts linear and variable in length, up to 6 mm. long, pilose; pedicels 1–2 cm. long, with spreading hairs or glabrous.. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 4–5 mm. long, acute with 2 apical calli, pilose.. Petals oblanceolate, 9–13 mm. long, glabrous.. Filaments glabrous.. Styles pubescent, as long as, or longer than, the long-stamen whorl, thus the flowers are either long-styled or homostyled.. Capsule globular, with 3 seeds in each locule.. Seeds flattened-ellipsoid, longitudinally ribbed, brown.