Variable, erect or spreading bulbous, hairy perennial herbs with branched leafy stems. Leaves more or less stalkless with 3 linear to oblong or obovate leaflets, each 1-1.5 cm long and to 3 mm or so wide, notched at the tip. Flowers solitary, violet or purple, rarely white or yellow, the petals hairy outside; autumn.

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Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Oxalidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.