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Oxalis

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Oxalidales Family: Oxalidaceae Genus: Oxalis

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual or perennial herbs.

Stems: Caulescent or acaulescent.

Roots: Often with bulbs or rhizomes.

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate or pinnate). Alternate, often folding at night. Petiolate. Stipules usually absent or minute.

Flowers: Flowers 1 to numerous in cymes, these often umbellate, axillary or arising directly from bulbs, pedicels articulate at base and sometimes also below calyx. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, imbricate, shortly connate. Corolla of 5 petals, yellow, white, pink to red or violet, coherent above claw. Stamens 10, in 2(3) series, 5 short and 5 longer, longer ones sometimes with a dorsal tube; filaments connate at base; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, (3–)5-carpellate, with as many cells, placentation axile; ovules 1 to ca. 10, in 1–2 rows per cell, pendulous; styles 5; stigma cylindrical and minutely 2-lobed or peltate.

Fruit: Loculicidal capsules. Seeds 1 to ca. 10 per cell; with a sterile fleshy aril at base that turns inside out and explosively releases the seeds; seed coat smooth or with transverse ridges or longitudinal furrows.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 433 (1753)

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