CHR 585764 – Oxalis tetraphylla Cav.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 585764
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 April 2009
Database record updated:
18 June 2022
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Oxalis tetraphylla Cav.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2004-02-13 (Verbatim: 13 Feb 2004)
Preferred name:
Oxalis tetraphylla Cav.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Geraniales
Family:
Oxalidaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6593 172.703
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Estate
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 29/04
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
12 Feb 2004
Start date:
2004-02-12
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.663 172.704
Habitat:
Growing spontaneously a few metres from cultivated parent.
Notes:
Perennial acaulous herb, eventually with large fleshy white root to c. 4.5 x 2.3 cm below the bulb; outer scales brown, with several veins. Petioles pinkish in lower part; lamina of leaflets either uniformly dull green above or with an indistinct to prominent dark purple crescent-shaped band in lower part and sometimes this lower part entirely purple; leaflets 4. Scape > leaves, pink towards base usually. Sepals oblong-elliptic, with 2-3 small apical calli. Petals 1.3-1.8 cm long x 0.7-1 cm wide, ± broad obovate but somewhat asymmetric, deep salmon-pink with darker veins except for pale green basal part. Stamens at 2 levels, both included; filaments of longer whorl pubescent and glandular. Styles short and glabrous, much < shorter stamens. Spreading from small bulbils around the main bulb. Cultivated nearby.
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