Oxalis oreophila T.M.Salter

Erect, slender, caulescent, 6-16 cm high, shortly silky-pubescent on all parts. Bulb ovoid, acute at the apex, 1.5-2 cm long, with soft brown tunics. Rhizome rather short. Stem slender, wiry, 3-12 cm long, with several scales or rarely small abortive leaves. Leaves 8-12, apically congested; petioles pubescent, the outer short, squamiform, the inner 0.3-1.4 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, linear or linear-cuneate, 3-5 mm long, conduplicate, falcate, obtuse, silky-pubescent beneath, glabrous and copiously punctate with minute reddish-brown calli above, introrsely ciliate. Peduncles 1-fld., 1.5-5 cm long, with 2 alternate reddish linear bracts, about 2 mm long, on the upper part. Sepals lanceolate, attenuate to the apex, 4-5 mm long, pale, ecallose. Corolla 1.5-1.8 cm long, white, rather sparsely glandular-pubescent, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals cuneate, slightly attenuate to the base, 4-6 mm broad, with a conspicuous narrow purple outer margin beneath. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4 mm, the longer 4-7.5 mm long, very unequal, pluricellular-pilose, edentate. Ovary small, pubescent on the upper part, with reddish-brown calli, the chambers 2-ovuled; styles pubescent below, pluricellular-pilose above. Capsule globular. Seeds without endosperm.