Oxalis pillansiana T.M.Salter & Exell

Slender, caulescent 6-16 cm high, clothed with long soft pluricellular hairs. Bulb ovoid, attenuate-acute, up to 3 mm long: tunics pale brown, the outer splitting longitudinally into linear twisted and crinkled fibres. Rhizome very long, the lower part surrounded by old fibrous tunic scales and the remains of old bulbs. Stem erect, up to 14 cm long, with a few conspicuous pale brown scales, often with 1-2 very short branches. Leaves apically congested on the stem or branchlets: petioles slender, up to 2 cm long, dilated at the base: leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, narrow-cuneate, emarginate, conduplicate, slightly falcate, 0 6-1 x 2 cm long, glabrous above, thinly pilose beneath. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal, usually shorter than the leaves, with 2 filiform bracts near the apex. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 5-6 mm long. Corolla 1.4-1.9 cm long, yellow, with a widely funnel-shaped tube: petals purple-margined beneath. Filaments shortly glandular-pilose, the shorter 2.5-3.5 mm, the longer 4-7 mm long, the longest recurved at the apex. Ovary ovoid-oblong, glandular-pilose on the upper part, ecallose, the chambers 1-ovuled: styles glandular-pilose.