Oxalis subsessilis L.Bolus

Caulescent, the long branching stem (at least in cultivation) procumbent. Bulb ovoid, about 2 cm long, with thin reddish-brown tunics. Stem branched, leafy, pubescent near the base and on the upper part, glabrescent in the middle, brown, polished, often 25 cm or in shade up to 40 cm long, 1.5-2 mm in diam., the branches up to 15 cm long. Leaves subsessile with squamiform or flattened pubescent petioles 1 mm long or less: leaflets 3, linear-cuneate, obtuse, entire or rarely slightly emarginate, often con-duplicate, 0.7-1.4 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, glabrous above, pubescent or at length glabrous beneath, minutely and inconspicuously callus-dotted towards the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., in the upper leaf axils, 1-5-3-5 cm long, pubescent, with 2 alternate bracts, 2-3 mm long, near the middle. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 5-6 mm long. Corolla up to 2 cm long, pale lilac, with a narrowly funnel-shaped dull yellow tube, the petals narrowly cuneate-obovate, rotund or somewhat acute at the apex, about twice as long as the narrow attenuate claw, purple-streaked and dotted along the outer margin beneath. Filaments edentate, the longer very minutely glandular-pilose. Ovary glabrous or sparsely glandular at the apex, copiously callose on the upper half, the chambers 1-2-ovuled: styles, the longest 9-5 mm long, pubescent near the base, slightly exserted from the corolla tube. (The long-styled flower only has been observed).