Oxalis barrelieri
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Description
Erect herb, stem up to 1.5 m, without bulbs or stolons.
Leaves usually more or less opposite, pinnately 3-foliolate, exstipulate;
Sepals 2-4 by ½-1¼ mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or with a few hairs, ecallose, 3-nerved.
Petals 6-9 by 2-2½ mm, obovate-lanceolate, apex rounded, after anthesis rolling inwards, pink, lower half greenish with yellow spots, glabrous.
Ovary 1 by 0.5 mm, glabrous;
Fruit 5-10 by 3-5 mm, slightly ovoid, 5-angular, apex and base 5-lobed, glabrous;
Seeds 3-4 per cell, 10.5 by 1 mm, ± flattened-ovoid;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Central Distr present, Papua present, tropical S. America present
Native of tropical S. America, cultivated and established in many places, the oldest collected specimen from Bogor dates from BOERLAGE, a. 1888; in Malesia: Sumatra, Banka, Malaya, Java, Papua (Central Distr.).