Oxalis stenopetala T.M.Salter

Slender, caulescent, 8-20 cm high. Bulb narrow-ovoid, attenuate or often with a tortuous acute beak at the apex, 2-3 cm long, with hard dark brown tunics. Rhizome about 6 cm long. Stem slender, rigid, 3-14 cm long, dark green, minutely adpressed-pubescent, sometimes with 1-2 scales. Leaves 5-13, rarely more, apically congested: petioles filiform, adpressed-pubescent, usually 1-3 cm long: leaflets 3, sessile, narrow-linear, narrowing at the base and apex, conduplicate, sometimes slightly falcate, minutely emarginate, 1-2.5 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, with 2 minute apical calli, often copiously black-dotted, especially near the margins. Peduncles rather numerous, 1-fld., longer than the leaves, 4-6 cm long, sparsely pubescent, with2 small alternate bracts on the upper part. Sepals lanceolate, attenuate, 4-4-5 mm long, pubescent particularly towards the base, ciliate, purplish towards the apex, with 2 red apical calli. Corolla 1.9-2 cm long, white, with a yellowish funnel-shaped tube: petals oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 5-6 mm broad, often slightly truncate at the apex, fugitive. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4.5 mm, the longer 3.5-6.5 mm long, glandular-pilose on the outer edge, with teeth about 0.3 mm long. Ovary narrow, oblong, 2-2.3 mm long, pubescent above, ecallose, the chambers 4-6-ovuled: styles pubescent at the base, glandular-pilose above. Capsule oblong, pubescent, about 1 cm long, well exserted from the calyx. Seeds without endosperm.