Oxalis psilopoda Turcz.

Weak, stemless, softly villous, up to 13 cm high. Bulb ovoid-globular, rather small, with a long acute beak about equal in length to the rounded part: tunics hard, greyish-brown, often with longitudinal nerves. Rhizome very slender, 1-5 cm long with a few small scales. Leaves few, basal: petioles slender, pale, 1-4 cm long, villose: leaflets3, shortly petiolulate, very broadly obcordate, sometimes tapering cuneately at the base, 2-7 mm long, 3-9 mm broad, the lateral some-what oblique, thin, glabrous or rarely villose above, densely silky with long weak hairs and sometimes livid beneath, ecallose. Peduncles 1-fld., 10-13 cm long, weak, villose, sometimes glabrous or glandular-pilose on the upper part, with 2 linear or subulate, opposite bracts at an articulation above the middle. Sepals lanceolate, about 6 mm long, villose, usually bicallose at the apex. Corolla 1.6-2 cm long, glabrous, white or rosy-violet, with a rather widely funnel-shaped yellow tube: laminae of the petals broadly obovate, about as long as the narrow-cuneate claw. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4 mm, the longer 4.5-7 mm long, unequal, very sparsely glandular-pilose, edentate or rarely very shortly toothed. Ovary pubescent on the upper half: styles thickly pubescent below, glandular near the apex. Capsule exserted from the calyx, the chambers 5-7-ovuled. Seeds with thin endosperm, the embryo green.