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Oxalis chapmanae Exell

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Oxalidaceae > Oxalis

Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate, 3–5 in a basal rosette; leaflet-lamina 4–8 × 0·1–1 cm., very narrowly elliptic or linear with an apical callus, almost glabrous, faveolate beneath; midrib flattened and somewhat expanded; petiole 4–16 cm. long, sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous.
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Flowers purple or magenta-pink or carmine with a whitish false tube and with pubescent or nearly glabrous pedicels, in 4–7-flowered pseudumbels arising from the leaf-rosettes; peduncle 7–24 cm. long, pubescent or nearly glabrous.
Sepals 5–6 × 1·5–3 mm., elliptic, pubescent or nearly glabrous with orange-coloured apical calli.
Stamens with 5 longer filaments 3 mm. long and 5 shorter ones 1·5 mm., long, all puberulous.
Perennial herb with vertical rhizome up to 10 cm. long, acaulescent or almost so.
Petals up to 18 mm. long, oblong-elliptic, glabrous.
Seeds 1 × 0·6 mm., brown, flattened-ellipsoid.
Bulb up to 2 × 1·5 cm., ovoid, acute.
Styles 4–5 mm. long, pubescent.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 20
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:663281-1
WFO ID wfo-0000387229
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Synonyms

Oxalis chapmanae
WorldFloraDB 2024