Xanthoxalis corniculata (L.) Small
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Oxalidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Pubescent or nearly glabrous, annual or perennial, deep-green, freely branching from the base; stem 2.5-15 cm. long, the branches diffuse, mainly procumbent and often creeping. Leaflets 812 mm. wide; petioles dilated at the base into oblong rounded or truncate stipules; peduncles 1-3-flowered; flowers 5-10 mm. wide; pedicels strigillose, more or less reflexed; capsule oblong, 1-1.8 cm. long, appressed-pubescent; seeds compressed, transversely ridged.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated lands. New Providence at Nassau and Grant's Town: widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres Referred by Mrs. Northrop to Oxalis corniculata repena Zucc. Yellow Procumbent WOOD-SORREL.
New Providence Bahamas South America|