Oxalis phloxidiflora Schltr.

Small, caulescent or almost stemless, 10 cm high, sparsely and minutely pubescent or almost glabrous. Bulb ovoid or oblong-ovoid, acute, 1-5-2 cm long, with smooth dark brown imbricating tunics. Rhizome slender, rather short, Stem up to4 cm long, with 1 or 2 scales, at least 1 basal. Leaves 6-12, terminally clustered, with very slender petioles 1-3.5 cm long: leaflets 3, sessile, narrow-linear conduplicate, emarginate, often abruptly widened at the apex, 0.8-3 cm long, glabrous above, sometimes sparsely pubescent beneath, with or without 2 apical calli. Peduncles 1-fld., stouter than the petioles, 2-7 cm long, with alternate linear bracts on the upper part. Sepals more or less lanceolate, often slightly attenuate, 3-5 mm long, pubescent, with or without 2 reddish apical calli. Corolla 1.8-3 cm long, purple, the tube cylindrical or narrowly funnel-shaped, slightly swollen at the throat, sparsely glandular, dull yellow, sometimes with 5narrow vertical purple lines and with a dull purple eye within the throat: laminae of the petals narrow-elliptical or narrow-obovate, about as long as the slender claw. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-5.5 mm, the longer 5-8 mm long, slightly swollen near the apex, sometimes gibbose. Ovary oblong, rather densely cano-pubescent, the chambers 5-ovuled: Styles glabrous. Capsule moniliform up to 1-8 cm long, pubescent, well exserted from the calyx. Seeds without endosperm.