Oxalis stokoei Weintroub

Dwarf, 2-3 cm high. Bulb ovoid or globular-ovoid, acute at the apex, up to 1.5 cm long; tunics thin, brown, the outer usually splitting into slender subfibrous matted segments, the inner often undulate. Rhizome slender, short. Stem usually not exserted, rarely 5 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 2-5, with reddish-brown pubescent petioles 1-2 cm long: leaflets 3, petiolulate, subrotund cuneate-obovate, cuneate or linear, conduplicate-falcate, minutely emarginate, 0.3-1 cm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, rather indistinctly punctate with numerous small, brown calli. Peduncles1-fld., about as long as the leaves, glabrous or pubescent, reddish-brown, with 2 alternate bracts on the upper part. Sepals ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2.5-6 mm long, pubescent, ciliate, reddish-brown, often with orange-red callose margins. Corolla 1 x 3-2.3 cm long, sometimes sparsely pubescent, rosy-purple, with a short funnel-shaped yellow tube and often with a dark purple eye in the throat: laminae of the petals rather narrowly ovate, 2-3 times as long as the slender claw. Filaments very variable in length, the longer minutely glandular-pilose, edentate, the longest somewhat exserted from the corolla tube: anthers very small, broader than long. Ovary glabrous or pilose on the upper half, callose at the apex, the chambers 1-2-ovuled: styles with both simple and glandular hairs. Capsule depresso-globose. Seeds without endosperm.