Oxalis strigosa T.M.Salter

Robust, stemless. Bulbs (young) elongate, lanceolate in outline, tortuous, about 8 cm long, with a long curved apical beak: tunics papery, transversely wrinkled, particularly about the middle, glandular-pilose, pale brown, the beak dark brown, smooth, up to 3 cm long: mature bulb very large, subcylindrical, about 2 cm in diam., with a contractile root. Rhizome stout, very long, up to 55 cm or more long, hirsute at the extreme apex only, with a thick brown cortex, the upper scales obcordate, hirsute: rootlets rather thick. Leaves up to 20; petioles often 4-6 cm long, slightly flattened, densely hirsute: leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, broadly obcordate or obdeltoid-obcordate, very slightly and widely indented or subtruncate on the upper margin, 0.9-1.5 cm long, 1.2-2.1 cm broad, minutely punctate, concolorous, strigose-hirsute, particularly on the veins beneath, with long hyaline strigose bristly hairs above and on the margins. Peduncles few, 1-fld., more slender than the petioles, 3-7 cm long, adpressed-pilose, with 2 alternate hairy rubro-callose bracts above the middle, the upper part deflexed after flowering. Sepals ovate-oblong, 5-6 mm long, hirsute, with several elongate red calli on the upper half, the margins dark purple. Corolla up to 2.5 cm long, glabrous, rose-red, with a yellowish purple-streaked funnel-shaped tube: laminae of the petals cuneate, obliquely truncate, often slightly retuse, up to 1 cm broad, narrowly purple-margined beneath, longer than the attenuate claw. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-5 mm, the longer 5-6.5 mm long, glandular-pilose on the outer side, with broad obtuse teeth. Ovary sparsely glandular below, hirsute above, with a few red calli near the apex, the chambers 2-ovuled: styles hirsute: stigmas small, green. Capsule globose, densely hirsute. Seeds with thin endosperm, the embryo green.