Citation: Savigny in Lam., EncycL 4:686 (1798).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Wood-sorrel, shamrock oxalis.

Description:
Perennial; rhizome to 10 cm long, to 2.5 cm diam., woody, covered with the old leaf bases; leaves numerous, crowded at the apex of the rhizome; petioles 5-30 cm, sparsely pubescent, broadened at the base; leaflets 3, obcordate, 1-2.5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm broad, pubescent on both sides, ciliate, with orange calli mostly along the margin.

Peduncles slightly longer than the leaves, with many flowers in an umbelliform contracted cyme; sepals lanceolate, c. 4 mm long, pubescent, with 2 calli at the apex; petals pink or purple, 10-15 mm long.

Fruits unknown here.

	Oxalis articulata habit.
Image source: fig 385a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: C. Lamp (1976) Weeds in Australia, p. 226.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.;.   Native to South America. Probably a garden escape. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: April — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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