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Oxalis mundtii

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Name

Identification
Oxalis ciliaris Jacq. [family OXALIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Oxalis mundtii Sond. [family OXALIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Oxalis mundtii
  • Oxalis ciliaris
  • Oxalis not on sheet

Flora

Entry for OXALIS Mundtii Sond. [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 Mundtii Sond. [family OXALIDACEAE]
Information
bulb ovate, with brown scales; stem short, scaly, leafless or somewhat leafy above, many-leaved at the summit; the petioles, under sides of leaflets, peduncles, and calyces, pubescent with very short hairs; leaflets as long as their petiole, linear, complicate, obtuse, or minutely emarginate, glabrous above, without calli; peduncle bibracteolate, longer than the leaf; sepals ovate or sub-lanceolate, 4–6 times shorter than the corolla; tube of corolla yellowish, limb violet-purple. Bulb nearly 1/2 inch. Stems 2–3 inches, with 2–3 very short branchlets below the crown. Petioles 4–6 lines long. Peduncles 1–1 1/2 inches long. Cor. 8–9 lines long, with a wide limb. Known from O. linearis by the bulb, and hairy stem and leaves, and short petioles; from O. Burkei by the pubescence and want of calli.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sandy and muddy places, α, at the Berg and Hex Rivers, Zeyher! 248, 255. β, at Berg R., Zey.! 250. γ. Swellendam, Mundt.! May. (Herb. Sond.)

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