Oxalis dichotoma T.M.Salter

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Oxalidaceae > Oxalis

Characteristics

Slender, stemless, almost glabrous, up to 15 cm high. Bulb globose, beaked at the apex, about 2 cm long, with smooth dark brown tunics. Leaves about 5, with petioles 4-8 cm long; leaflets 3, very shortly petiolulate, sparsely villose, triangular in outline, 1-3 cm long, 1.4-3.3 cm broad, narrowed cuneately to the base, bilobed nearly to the base, the lobes oblong, obtuse. Peduncles 2-9-fld., twice as long as the leaves; bracts subulate, about 4 mm long, ecallose; pedicels glabrous, 1-2.5 cm long. Sepals narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, 6-7 mm long, glabrous, with 2 elongate orange apical calli. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, violaceous, with a funnel-shaped yellowish tube; petals cuneate, 5-7 mm broad, truncate at the apex. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4.5 mm, the longer 4-7.5 mm long, sparsely glandular-pilose, gibbose. Ovary sparsely pubescent above, the chambers many-ovuled; styles pubescent. Capsule exserted. Seeds with thin endosperm, the embryo green.
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Slender, often branched geophyte to 15 cm, bulb beaked. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets bilobed almost to base. Flowers 2-9 per peduncle, lilac.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Cultivation

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

Oxalis dichotoma world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:663333-1
WFO ID wfo-0001089683
COL ID 75F9X
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Synonyms

Oxalis dichotoma