Oxalis zeyheri Sond.

Rather small, with a more or less exserted stem, clothed with both simple adpressed pubescence and with admixed patent pluricellular hairs. Bulb oblong-lanceolate in outline, about 4 cm long, with vertically grooved brown tunics. Rhizome often 8-12 cm long. Stem scarcely exserted or up to 3 cm long, rather densely pilose, with a few ovate-lanceolate scales. Leaves closely imbricate at the apex of the stem, with rather slender petioles up to 3 cm long: leaflets 7-15, sessile, linear or linear-cuneate, conduplicate-falcate, minutely emarginate, 2-9 mm long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, with capitate hairs on the margins and midrib and with several inconspicuous brownish calli towards the apex. Peduncles 1-fld., terminal or rarely arising from the upper stem-scales, longer than the leaves, with 2 alternate linear bracts, often 2 mm long, on the upper part. Sepals lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm long, often purple-margined. Corolla 1.6-2.2 cm long, sparsely pubescent, rosy or violaceous, the very narrowly funnel-shaped or cylindrical tube marked with 5 narrow vertical streaks. Filaments, the longer up to 7 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose on the outer edge, slightly gibbose. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, the chambers 2-ovuled: styles pubescent below, sparsely glandular-pilose above.