Oxalis levis T.M.Salter

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Oxalidaceae > Oxalis

Characteristics

Dwarf, with a short stem or stemless, often somewhat tufted, up to 3 cm high. Bulbs often congested, narrow-ovoid, attenuate and acute at the apex, up to 2 cm long, with smooth blackish-brown polished tunics. Rhizome about 6 cm long. Stem up to 4 mm long, glabrous, with 1-2 amplexicaul scales. Leaves 2-5, basal or apically congested; petioles filiform, dark brown, glabrous, about 1 cm long; leaflets 3, sessile, linear, conduplicate or rarely involute, slightly emarginate, up to 9 mm long, scarcely 1 mm broad, glabrous, ecallose, dark green beneath, glaucous above. Peduncles 1-3, 1-fld., as long as the petioles, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent above, with 2 small alternate reddish bracts near the apex. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, 3-4 mm long, rarely sparsely pubescent, ciliate on the upper part, with 2 inconspicuous apical calli. Corolla 1.5-1.9 cm long, white or very pale violaceous, with a funnel-shaped yellow tube; petals somewhat obliquely narrow-cuneate, slightly attenuate at the base, rounded at the apex, 5-6 mm broad. Filaments glabrous, very shortly connate, the longer 4.5-5.5 mm long, edentate. Ovary globose-ovoid, 1 mm long, pubescent on the upper half, ecallose, the chambers 1-2-ovuled; styles sparsely pubescent below, minutely glandular-pilose above. Seeds without endosperm.
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Dwarf geophyte with stem to 3 cm. Leaves terminal, trifoliolate, leaflets linear-conduplicate, petioles dark brown. Flowers white or lilac with yellow tube.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.03
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 1-2
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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Oxalis levis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:663491-1
WFO ID wfo-0001089763
COL ID 6TGBP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Oxalis levis