Oxalis porphyriosiphon T.M.Salter

Erect, caulescent, viscous, 5-11 cm high, often tufted, clothed with pluricellular capitate hairs and short simple crispate hairs admixed. Bulbs ovoid or narrow-ovoid, acute at the apex, often congested and deformed, 1-5-2 cm long: tunics blackish brown, somewhat gummy. Rhizome short, often 1-2 cm long. Stem about 7 cm long, with a few scales below, but almost entirely leafy. Leaves, the lower subsessile, the upper with petioles up to 3 mm long: leaflets 3, sessile, cuneate-obcordate, conduplicate, usually falcate, 2-5-4 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath, with longer capitate hairs on the midrib and margins. Peduncles 1-fld., axillary, often 2-
 long, ebracteate or with 1 or very rarely 2 minute bracts on the upper half. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, up to 3 mm long, reddish, sometimes darkening at the apex, ecallose. Corolla 2-2-3 cm long, viscous, particularly on the tube, reddish-purple, the tube dark purple, narrowly funnel-shaped, with a dull yellow eye at the throat: laminae of the petals obovate, subtruncate or slightly retuse at the apex, 7-9.5 mm broad, ciliate with capitate hairs, as long as the narrow claw. Filaments, the shorter 4-6 mm, the longer 6-8.5 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose, narrowly toothed, the longest very unequal. Ovary globose-ovoid, 1 mm long, pubescent above, ecallose, the chambers1-ovuled: styles pubescent below, sparsely glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.