3936.000 Oxalis L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs, mostly bulbous. Leaves radical or cauline, alternate or in a cluster, digitately 3-foliolate (in ours). Flowers actinomorphic, solitary or subtended by bracts in pseudumbels or cymes. Petals contorted, unguiculate. Stamens 10 in 2 rows. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent.

Worldwide: 700 species, cosmopolitan but concentrated in S America and the Cape

Zambia: 10 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
abercornensis Knuth [DD]	N
anthelmintica A. Rich.	N	Description
chapmaniae Exell[NrEnd]	E	Description, Image
corniculata L.	B,N,W,C,E	Description, Image
latifolia Kunth	N,C	Description, Image
obliquifolia Steud. ex A.Rich.	N,C	Description, Image
oligotricha Baker	N,W
semiloba Sond. subsp. semiloba	S	Description, Image
semiloba Sond. subsp. uhehensis (Engl.) Exell	N,W,C,E
trichophylla Baker	N

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Flora of Rwanda: Oxalis
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Oxalis

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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Oxalis
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