Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxalis latifolia
Common name
Fish-tail Wood-sorrel
Family
Oxalidaceae
Where found
Gardens, roadsides, and disturbed sites. Coast and ranges north from Nowra. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb, the stem reduced, appearing absent. Bulbs oval to round, 1-1.5 cm long, pointed, outer surface light brown, vertically ribbed. Bulbils formed from the old bulb on stolons 0.5–4 cm long. Leaf stalks 5–23 cm long, sparsely hairy. Leaves basal, 5–15, with three triangular leaflets each 0.9–4.5 cm long, 12–75 mm wide, surfaces green, sometimes maroon-flecked, hairless above, sparsely hairy below, margins sparsely fringed, the lobe tips rounded, 12–50 mm apart. Stipules conspicuous, to about 10 mm long, with rounded to blunt lobes. Flowers with 5 petals 10–16 mm long, pink to purple, white at the base, sometimes with green stripes, sometimes white throughout. Flowers in clusters of 6–14 flowers, on sparsely hairy stalks longer than the leaves. Flowering: mainly December–June. Seed cases not known in Australia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxalis~latifolia (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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