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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Oxalidaceae
Oxalis hirta

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 434 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Hairy woodsorrel.

Description:
Bulbs ovoid, c. 2 cm long; tunics brown; rhizome to 20 cm; stem erect, 5-30 cm, sometimes branching, pubescent to hirsute, the upper part foliaceous, the basal part with brown scales; petioles 1-2 mm long, flattened; leaflets 3, oblong, 5-15 mm long, c. 4 mm broad, slightly emarginate, often conduplicate-falcate.

Flowers axillary, solitary; sepals lanceolate, 6-8 mm long, pubescent; petals pink or purple, yellow at the base, 20-30 mm long.

Fruits unknown here.

image of FSA2_Oxalis_hir.jpg Oxalis hirta habit.
Image source: fig 385b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Dyer (1959) Flowering Plants of Africa, 33:pl. 1297.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.   Native to South Africa. Probably a garden escape.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: April — July.


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