Family: Oxalidaceae
Oxalis bowiei
Citation:
Herbert in Lindley, Edwards' Bot. Reg. 19:t. 1585 (1834).
Synonymy: Oxalis bowieana, Oxalis bowiei Common name: Bowie wood-sorrel.
Description:
Bulbs ovoid, 2-4 cm long, tapered; tunics light-brown; no rhizome; stem hardly exserted; leaves 10-20; petioles 5-12 cm, densely glandular-pilose, broadened at the base; leaflets 3, obovate to nearly rhomboid, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1.5-5 cm broad, mostly lightly notched, glabrous or with some hairs above, more densely glandular-pilose below, shortly ciliate with glandular hairs.
Peduncles to 20 cm, with 5-12 flowers in an umbel; sepals lanceolate, c. 8 mm long, glandular-pilose; petals light-pink, greenish-yellow at the base, 20-30 mm long.
Fruits unknown here.
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Image source: fig 386a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 434.
Distribution:
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Probably a garden escape.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.;. Native to South Africa.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: March — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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