| Broadleaf Wood Sorrel |
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| File size | 512247 |
| Original date | 4/5/21 12:23 PM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 2736 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Oxalis latifolia Family: Oxalidaceae (Wood sorrel family)
Synonyms: Oxalis mauritiana, Oxalis calcaria, Oxalis lilacina, Oxalis binervis
Synonyms: Oxalis mauritiana, Oxalis calcaria, Oxalis lilacina, Oxalis binervis
Broadleaf Wood Sorrel is a stemless perennial herb,
hairless, from a single bulb. Leaves all basal, trifoliate. Leaflets
are inverted-heart-shaped, 2.5-4 cm, lobed to 1/5-1/2 length, lobes are
rounded, green on both surfaces, oxalate deposits absent; leaf-stalks
are 10-25 cm. Broadleaf Wood Sorrel is very similar to
Dehradun Wood Sorrel, which has
inverted-triangular leaflets which are rather pointed (not rounded) at
the tips. Flowers are 6-10 in umbel-like cymes, tristylous, rarely
homostylous. Flowering stems are 10-20 cm; flower-stalks 1-2 cm; sepal
tips with a pair of short to elongate, non-confluent, orange tubercles.
Petals are 9-12 mm, purple to lavender or pink. Bulb scales are
7-9-nerved, inner thickened and white with hyaline margins. Capsules
are cylindric, 4-6 mm, hairless. Broadleaf Wood Sorrel is native to
Tropical & Subtropical America, widely naturalized elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
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