Oxalis rubens Haw.
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Oxalis rubens Haw. (1803)
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Nomenclature
Haw.
Haw.
1803
ICN
Oxalis rubens Haw.
species
Oxalis rubens
Classification
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Descriptions
Oxalis rubens Haw.
2n = 24
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Perennial with primary root stout, occasionally to 5 mm wide. Stems decumbent to ± erect, to c. 50 cm tall, slender, weak, branched, not or slightly rooting at the nodes, glabrate to densely covered in ± antrorse, and often crisped hairs. Lvs 3-foliolate. Petiole usually 1-10 cm long, glabrate or covered with long patent to antrorse hairs; stipules generally < 1.5 mm long, completely adnate, sometimes reduced and merely simulating a dilated petiole base, usually ciliate. Petiolules very short. Lamina of leaflets equal, 3-13 × 4-18 mm, obcordate or broadly obcordate, with divergent lobes, and sinus generally > 1/2 lamina length, glabrous above, with hairs below mainly confined to midrib, ± ciliate; calli 0. Fls 1-3-(4); peduncle 1.5-7 cm and pedicels 0.3-2 cm long, longer at fruiting, both with ± antrorse, slightly curling hairs. Bracts 1-2.5 mm long, linear-subulate, densely hairy, situated at base of pedicels; calli 0. Sepals 3-5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-elliptic to oblong-ovate, with antrorse, appressed hairs; calli 0. Petals 6-14 mm long, oblong-obovate to almost obdeltate, yellow, glabrous. Stamens at 2 levels, glabrous; filaments united towards base. Styles < to > longer stamens, densely hairy. Capsule 10-23 mm long excluding styles, cylindric, densely hairy; hairs short, retrorse or sometimes almost patent, sometimes glandular. Seeds 1.2-1.7 mm long, oblong-ellipsoid; transverse ridges 8-10, obtuse; grooves deep.
Taxonomic concepts
Oxalis ambigua A.Rich.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis corniculata var. crassifolia (A.Cunn.) Hook.f.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis crassifolia A.Cunn.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis divergens A.Cunn.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis lacicola A.Cunn.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis propinqua A.Cunn.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 July 2009