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Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.

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Oxalis exilis A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 316 (1839)
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1839
316
ICN
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
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Oxalis exilis

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exilis

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Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.

Perennial; primary root slender to stout, occasionally to c. 10 mm thick. Stems glabrous to densely hairy (hairs usually antrorse, occasionally dense and patent), ± filiform, creeping, prostrate or nearly so, rooting at nodes, much-branched and often mat-forming. Lvs 3-foliolate. Petiole 5-40 mm long, with patent or antrorse hairs, these sparse to dense; stipules adnate, truncate or rounded at apex. Petiolules very short. Lamina of leaflets equal, 1-9 × 1.5-12 mm, obcordate, sometimes broadly so, with width > length, with narrow to broad sinus and rounded lobes, glabrous or hairy above, glabrate or with appressed hairs beneath, ciliate or eciliate, often purplish below; calli 0. Fls solitary, rarely paired; peduncle glabrate to densely clothed in antrorse hairs, generally geniculate at apex; pedicel (4)-8-25 mm long. Bracts 1-3 mm long, ± linear-subulate, hairy, situated at base or at middle of pedicels; calli 0. Sepals 2.3-3.5-(4) mm long, oblong-lanceolate, oblong, or ovate-elliptic, glabrate or with antrorse hairs; calli 0. Petals 4.5-9-(13) mm long, ± oblong-obovate, yellow, often pink-flushed outside, glabrous. Stamens at 2 levels, glabrous or nearly so; filaments united at base, those of longer whorl c. 1.5 mm long. Styles < or > longer stamens, densely hairy. Capsule (3)-7-10-(13) mm long excluding styles, broadly cylindric, cylindric-ovoid or conic, glabrous to densely hairy; hairs short, patent or retrorse, sometimes glandular. Seed 1-1.3-(1.5) mm long, broad-ellipsoid; transverse ridges 7-13, subacute, sometimes white-topped; grooves deep.

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Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
Oxalis tenuicaulis A.Cunn.
Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.

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Oxalis exilis A.Cunn.
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4babe45c-30b1-4a89-849c-56eec5597e00
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 July 2009
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