Oxalis corniculata L.

English: Creeping Woodsorrel

German: Gehörnter Sauerklee

Mandarin: 酢浆草 (cu jiang cao)

Portuguese: Erva-azeda-de-folha-pequena, Erva-canária

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Geraniales (37)

        Family: Oxalidaceae (7)(family description)

          Genus: Oxalis (7)

            Epithet: corniculata L. (1)

Synonym: Acetosella bakeriana Kuntze

corniculata => horned, bearing small horns, having horn-like fruit

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [819] Oxalis corniculata - Plants For A Future database
• [896] Oxalis corniculata - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [1193] Oxalis - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
• [1815] Oxalis corniculata - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
• [14] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1984): Plants of cropland in Western Samoa with special reference to taro. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.