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Oxalis semiloba Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Oxalidaceae > Oxalis

Characteristics

A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It has rhizomes or underground stems. These are 15 cm long. The bulbs are 1-2 cm long. They usually occur singly at the base of the rhizome. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets do not have stalks. The flowers are 15 mm long. They are bright pink or red. They are in groups or 3-12.
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Acaulescent geophyte, up to 0.2 m high. Bulbs ovoid to lanceolate, smooth, brown. Leaves basally congested, trifoliolate, leaflets suborbicular-obcordate. Peduncles 3-12-flowered. Flowers pink with greenish tube. Sepals with apical calli. Flowering time Oct.-May.
It appears to differ from the foregoing (O. bowiei Lind.) in usually, but not always having smaller leaves, more deeply bilobed leaflets, rusty apical callion the sepals, seeds with thick endosperm and in sometimes producing an exserted stem.
Herb, up to 400 mm tall. Bulb with contractile root, bulb tunics smooth. Rhizome without runners. Sepals with rusty apical calli. Peduncles basal. Flowers purplish pink with yellow tube.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system rhizome
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forest woodland and grasslands. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity 7-9
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The bulb is eaten raw. The leaves are eaten raw.
Uses food medicinal
Edible bulbs flowers leaves roots
Therapeutic use Beverage (unspecified), Salad (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 20
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Oxalis semiloba world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:375396-1
WFO ID wfo-0000386750
COL ID 4BBGV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Oxalis ringoetii Oxalis semiloba Oxalis katangensis Acetosella semiloba Oxalis semiloba subsp. semiloba
WorldFloraDB 2024