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Oxalis pes-caprae L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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1753
434
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Oxalis pes-caprae L.
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Oxalis pes-caprae

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pes-caprae

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Oxalis pes-caprae L.

Perennial herb, apparently acaulous but with underground stolons bearing numerous bulbils near the apex; contractile roots thick, fleshy, glassy white; bulb to c. 3 cm long, ovoid; tunic pale brown, 5-7-nerved. Lvs 3-foliolate, radical. Petiole 6-22 cm long, ± hairy; stipules membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Lamina sessile (that of terminal leaflet somewhat larger than laterals), 10-32 × 12-35 mm, shallowly to deeply 2-lobed to c. 1/2 way, glabrous above, ± sericeous and finely reticulate below; base narrow-cuneate; lobes oblong to almost obovate; apex rounded. Fls (1)-3-18, in pseudoumbels, pendent; peduncles (7)-15-45 cm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy; pedicels to 2 cm long, densely clothed in glandular hairs. Bracts at base of pedicels, c. 2.5 mm long, lanceolate, hairy, with apical calli. Sepals 5-6.5 mm long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, with glandular hairs mainly towards base, or nearly glabrous; calli 2, apical, usually orange, sometimes yellow. Petals (1.5)-2-2.8 cm long, obovate with narrow claw, golden, sometimes red-margined, with appressed hairs outside or almost glabrous. Stamens at 2 levels, glabrous; filaments appendaged below, c. 7 mm long in the 2 common stylar morphs, 5 mm long in the rare long-style morph. Styles either < or nearly = lower stamen whorl (short-styled clone), > lower stamen whorl (mid-style clone), or = or > upper stamen whorl (long-style clone), hairy. Capsule not seen.

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Oxalis pes-caprae L.
Oxalis pes-caprae L.
Oxalis pes-caprae L.
Oxalis pes-caprae L.
Oxalis pes-caprae L.
Oxalis pes-caprae L.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Oxalis pes-caprae L.
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3db5940b-140c-4660-9c08-977d3839b76f
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 November 2015
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