Oxalis saltusbelli Dreyer & Roets

Geophyte, 10-250 mm tall, aggregated into clumps. Bulb obovate to globose, with pointed to bent narrow apex, tunics blackish-brown, sticky, indumentum densely glandular hairy with young, glabrescent with age. Rhizome vertical up to 200 mm long, with masses of adventitious roots from upper part, upper rhizome nodes with prominent straw-coloured, amplexicaul, broadly triangular scales, abaxially covered in long soft hairs; sheath present, light brown, glabrescent, glandular hairy along entire length, densely villous at apex. Above-ground stem absent. Leaves 3-15 per plant, petioles adaxially concave to almost U-shaped, 50-160 mm, sparsely covered with long soft hairs; leaflets 6-13, very shortly petiolulate, of unequal length, radially arranged around swollen pulvinus, 10-90 x.05-3 mm, apex shallowly emarginate, base attenuate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely covered with long, soft hairs when young, glabrescent with scattered hairs in mature leaves, with two rounded to oblong, reddish-orange apical calli abaxially. Peduncle 1-flowered, 75-100 mm long, erect, reddish-green, evenly covered with long soft hairs, bracts 2 on upper part of peduncle, alternate, linear to filiform, up to 0.6 mm long. Sepals 5.0 x 1.0-1.5 mm, lanceolate-elliptical, apex acute, abaxially covered with long, soft hairs, green becoming reddish, especially along margins. Corolla 18-20 mm long, light lilac with funnel-shaped yellow tube 8.5-9 mm long, petals obovate to broadly spathulate, abaxially with a few long soft hairs on outer margins, ecallose. Stamens in 3 series, 2 series per plant, the shortest level 1.5-2 mm, the middle 2.5-3.0 mm and the longest 6.2-6 mm long, all basally joined for 1-1.5 mm; anthers oblong, yellow, filaments white, glandular hairy, filament teeth greenish white, 0.5-2 mm long, apically rounded to obtuse and curved outward. Ovary 1.2-1.5 mm long, ovoid, densely pilose, 5 locules each 1-ovuled; styles 5, separate, in three series with one per plant, shortest 1.5 mm, middle 3.0 mm, longest 6.0 mm, erect densely villous; stigmas green, capitate. Fruit a globular 5-locular capsule. Seeds without endosperm. Pollen tricolpate, triangularly rounded in equatorial view, spherical in polar view, tectum finely reticulate.