Taxon: Oxalis debilis Kunth var. corymbosa (DC.) Lourteig

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See other conspecific taxa:

• Oxalis debilis (no accessions)
• Oxalis debilis var. debilis (no accessions)

Common names:

• lilac oxalis   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• pink shamrock   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  
• sheep-sorrel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• brasilianischee Sauerklee   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• azedinha-de-sapo   (Source: F Catarin) – Portuguese
  
• lökoxalis   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Para, Parana, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, Santa Fe, Tucuman; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Sumatra; Malaysia [Malaya]; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Panama

• also cultivated

• exact native range in Americas obscure

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Oxalis corymbosa].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Lourteig, A. 2000. Oxalis L. subgéneros Monoxalis (Small) Lourt., Oxalis y Trifidus Lourt. Bradea 7:566.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• USDA, NRCS. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service's PLANTS database (on-line resource).
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

Synonyms:

• (≡) Oxalis corymbosa DC. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Oxalis debilis Kunth var. corymbosa (DC.) Lourteig:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Check other databases for images:

• 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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