3936.000 Oxalis L.

Key to species

1Flowers yellowOxalis corniculata
1Flowers purple, pink, mauve or white (sometimes with a green or yellow centre)2
2Flowers solitaryOxalis obliquifolia
2Flowers in pseudo-umbels3
3Plant without a vertical rhizome and with bulb or bulbs at or near the surface of the ground at the base of the leaf rosetteOxalis latifolia
3Plant with a vertical rhizome and with the bulb or bulbs some centimetres below the surface of the ground4
4Leaflets entire or nearly so (not lobed or notched or conspicuously emarginate)Oxalis anthelmintica
4Leaflets 2-lobed or 2-partiteOxalis semiloba subsp. semiloba

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Oxalis: Key to species.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species-key.php?genus_id=789, retrieved 29 March 2024

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