Oxalis lindaviana Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Oxalidaceae > Oxalis

Characteristics

Slender, almost glabrous, up to 24 cm high, with an exserted sparsely scaly stem 2-13 cm long. Leaves fairly numerous, apically clustered; petioles usually 3-6 cm long; leaflets broadly triangular in outline, bilobed to about the middle, more or less cuneate at the base, 5-7 mm long, 0.9-1 cm broad, the lobes very obtuse. Peduncles 3-6-fld., apical or rarely cauline, slender, 8-11 cm long; bracts subulate, 3-5 mm long; pedicels 2-4, filiform, 2-5 cm long. Sepals lanceolate, sharply acute, 4-5 mm long, ecallose. Corolla up to 1.7 cm long, pale violaceous.
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Glabrous, sometimes branched geophyte, 2-20 cm, bulb beaked. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets bilobed to middle. Flowers 3 or 4 per peduncle, white with greenish tube.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.24
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Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Oxalis lindaviana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:375077-1
WFO ID wfo-0001089765
COL ID 6TGBT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Oxalis lindaviana