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Oxalis rubens Haw.

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Oxalis rubens Haw. (1803)
Oxalis rubens Haw.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Haw.
Haw.
1803
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Oxalis rubens Haw.
species
Oxalis rubens

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rubens

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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.

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Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis rubens Haw.
Oxalis stricta sensu Allan
Oxalis rubens Haw.

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Oxalis rubens Haw.
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cddcbb1f-1378-42ff-a886-666a3421adb2
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 July 2009
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