Taxon: Oxalis tuberosa Molina

Common names:

• truffette acide   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Oka   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• azedinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• occa   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Quichua (Peru)
  
• aleluya tuberosa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• oca   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – Spanish (Peru)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: starch; vegetable   (fide Diversity 10:32. 1994)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela - Merida, Sucre
  Western South America: Bolivia - Cochabamba, La Paz; Colombia - Cauca, Cundinamarca; Ecuador - Bolivar, Loja, Napo, Tungurahua; Peru - Apurimac, Cajamarca, Cuzco, Huancavelica, Huanuco, Junin, La Libertad, Lima, Piura, Puno
  Southern South America: Argentina - Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America [Andean]

References:

• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. (F BuenAir) [mentions].
• Emshwiller, E. & J. J. Doyle. 2002. Origins of domestication and polyploidy in oca (Oxalis tuberosa: Oxalidaceae). 2. Chloroplast-expressed glutamine synthetase data. Amer. J. Bot. 89:1042–1056.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
• Lourteig, A. 2000. Oxalis L. subgéneros Monoxalis (Small) Lourt., Oxalis y Trifidus Lourt. Bradea 7:254.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
• Zandstra, I. 1994. Diversity 10:31–33.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Oxalis tuberosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Oxalis tuberosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Oxalis crenata Jacq.
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)

Check other databases for Oxalis tuberosa Molina:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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