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Oxalis adspersa

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Name

Identification
Oxalis adspersa Eckl. & Zeyh. [family OXALIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Oxalis pallida Salter & Exell [family OXALIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Oxalis affinis
  • Oxalis adspersa
  • Oxalis ciliaris
  • Oxalis meyeri
  • Oxalis pallida
  • Oxalis florida
  • Oxalis pilosella
  • Oxalis pillosella

Flora

Entry for OXALIS adspersa E. & Z. [family OXALIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 312, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
OXALIS adspersa E. & Z. [family OXALIDACEAE], ! 743
Information
stipes hairy; leaves on long petioles; leaflets narrow-linear, scarcely emarginate, with involute margins, glabrous and nerveless above, sprinkled with orange-coloured glandular calli beneath; scapes longer than the leaves, bi-bracteolate; sepals ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, hairy, six times shorter than the corolla. Stipe 1–2-uncial, with few scales. Petioles glabrous, 1–2-uncial. Leaflets 12–15 lines long, scarcely one line wide, not hairy at either side. Scapes sub-pilose, with setaceous bracts. Corolla uncial, reddish-lilac or violet, with a yellow base.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In sandy and muddy soil, near Brackfontein, Clanw., E. & Z.! May. (Herb. Sond.).

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