Oxalis oreithala T.M.Salter

Dwarf, stemless, slender, 3-4 cm high. Bulb oval, about 7 mm long, very broadly 4-winged; tunics brown. Rhizome 0.5-2 cm long. Leaves 6-8, basal; petioles up to 1 cm long, sparsely pubescent, scarcely widened at the base; leaflets broadly rotund, entire or sometimes retuse at the apex, 1-1.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, glabrous, rather fleshy, with comparatively large epidermal cells, green above, purple beneath. Peduncles 1-fld., 2-3 cm long, sparsely pubescent, with 2 minute alternate or sub-opposite bracts on the upper part. Sepals oblong, obtuse, about 3 mm long, purplish, ecallose. Corolla white, 0.9-1.1 cm long, with a yellow funnel-shaped tube; petals cuneate, 3.5-4.5 mm broad, slightly attenuate towards the base, the apex subtruncate. Filaments (longistylar form only) 2-3 mm long, the longer minutely glandular-pilose, dentate. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 3-ovuled; styles 6 mm long, glandular-pilose; stigmas small, green.