Oxalis pallens Eckl. & Zeyh.

Caulescent, slender, pubescent, 4-10 cm high. Bulb small, ovoid, acuminate, up to 9 mm long, with smooth dark brown tunics. Rhizome usually 1-3 cm long, Stem 1-5 cm long. Leaves often 10-16, terminally congested; petioles 1-2 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, linear or linear-cuneate, conduplicate, emarginate, 2-8 mm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, with or without 2 apical calli. Peduncles terminal, 2-5 cm long, stouter than the petioles, with 2 alternate subulate bracts near the calyx. Sepals linear-lanceolate, sometimes slightly attenuate, subacute, 4-5 mm long, bicallose and often purplish towards the apex. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, white, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals 4-8 mm broad, the obovate laminae as long as or very little longer than the claw. Filaments, the shorter 1.5-2.5 mm, the longer 3-5.5 mm long, shortly glandular-pilose, with longish narrow teeth. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Capsule not exserted. Seeds without endosperm.