Herbs with an underground rhizome and bulbs with a blackish brown surface. Leaves 5-20 with stalks 2-6 cm long and 3 obovate to rhombic leaflets 1-3 cm long and wide, sometimes notched. Flowers solitary with pink to purple or occasionally yellow, cream or white petals, 1.4-4 cm long, yellow at the base; autumn to winter. Fruit not apparent.
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Source: (2002). Oxalidaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Flowers white.
Smaller plant with large silky leaves and yellow flowers.