Oxalis suavis R.Knuth

Small, rather lax, stemless or rarely with a short stem, up to 8 cm high, clothed with longish pluricellular and short capitate hairs. Bulb ovoid, acute or shortly beaked at the apex, 2-2.5 cm long: tunics ovate, very sharply pointed, thin, rather loose, shining, chestnut-brown. Rhizome25-30 cm long. Stem usually not exserted, rarely up to 3 cm long, pilose, with a few large scales. Leaves 15-40, rosulate or rarely a few cauline: petioles slender, often 2-5 cm long, broadly dilated, sub-membranous and nerved below the articulation: leaflets 3, shortly petiolate, exactly cuneate at the base, obcordately incised at the apex, 5-12 mm long, 4-5-11 mm broad, thin, glabrous above, sparsely pilose beneath, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, copiously sprinkled with small, reddish-brown calli towards the anterior margin. Peduncles1-fld., 2-5 cm long, with 2 alternate filiform bracts, often 3 mm long, near the calyx. Sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often attenuate at the apex, 5-7 mm long. Corolla 2-3 cm long, slightly viscous, lemon yellow or white, with a rather broadly funnel-shaped pale yellow tube: petals subcuneate, scarcely truncate, lightly attenuate into as hort conspicuously veined claw, rarely sparsely purple-maculate on the outer margin beneath. Filaments glandular-pilose, the shorter 2-4.2 mm, the longer 4-6.5 mm long, with very short obtuse teeth. Ovary glandular-pilose on the upper half, the chambers 1-2-ovuled:styles glandular. Seeds without endosperm.