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.

	Oxalis bowiei leaf and inflorescence.
Image source: fig 386a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 434.

Distribution:  Probably a garden escape. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.;.   Native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: March — Nov.

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

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