Oxalis purpurata Jacq.

Stemless. Bulb ovoid, 1-1.5 cm long, without a contractile root: tunics smooth, chestnut brown. Rhizome producing fleshy underground runners which sometimes emerge and produce leaves, or more commonly apical bulbils. Leaves basal, usually 3-5, with hirsute or pubescent petioles: leaflets very broadly cuneate-obcordate, somewhat truncate at the apex, emarginate, tapering cuneately or attenuately to the base, 1-5 cm long, 1 x 3.2-3 cm broad, thickish, glabrous and dark green above, pilose and densely purple below, rather closely ciliate. Peduncle 7-fld., 10-19 cm long, like the pedicels sparsely pubescent: pedicels usually about 1 cm long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, pubescent, 4-5 mm long, without apical calli. Corolla glabrous, 1.3-1.9 cm long, pale rosy-lilac, with a rather broadly funnel-shaped yellowish tube: petals cuneate, 4-6 mm broad. Filaments, the longest 6 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose, with short obtuse or truncate teeth. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chamber 7-ovuled: styles pubescent, sometimes with short glandular hairs admixed. Seeds not seen. (Described from cultivated specimens, all of the mediostylar form.).