Oxalis trichophylla Baker

Acaulescent or very shortly stemmed perennial herb, with a vertical rhizome up to 7 cm. long; bulb ovoid, with a linear-lanceolate beak, up to 3 cm. long excluding the beak and 2 cm. in diameter; beak 1–2.5 cm. long; scales brown, smooth, with parallel veins.. Leaves 3-foliolate, 2–many ± in a basal rosette; petiole up to 11 cm. long, pubescent; leaflets obovate to elliptic, very variable in form and size, from l.5–4(–5) cm. long and up to2 cm. wide above the middle, obtuse, rounded or sometimes truncate at apex, cuneate, sparsely pilose to glabrate above, densely pilose beneath, ciliate at the margins.. Flowers in 2–many-flowered pseudumbels, pink to purplish-blue with a yellowish throat; peduncles longer than the petioles, up to 15 cm. long, arising from the leaf-rosettes or subtended by cauline bracts below the rosettes, with simple and glandular hairs; bracts linear, up to 6 mm. long; pedicels up to 1.5 cm. long, glandular hairy.. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 6.5 mm. long, glandular hairy, with or without orange apical calli.. Petals oblong, obliquely obtuse at apex, cuneate, 10–15 mm. long.. Long filaments hairy, with short appendages at the back in the lower half. Short filaments glabrous in mid-and long-styled flowers , in short-styled flowers short filaments hairy.. In mid-and long-styled flowers styles hairy, in short-styled flowers styles glabrous. Ovary globose.. Capsule glabrous or hairy, with 2–3 seeds per locule.. Seeds up to 1.5 mm. long and 1.0 mm. wide, longitudinally 6–7-ribbed, chocolate-brown.