Oxalis inaequalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Oxalidales |
Family: | Oxalidaceae |
Genus: | Oxalis |
Species: | O. inaequalis
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Binomial name | |
Oxalis inaequalis Weintroub
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Oxalis inaequalis is a bulb-forming species of flowering plant in the wood sorrel family. [2] It is native to South Africa's Cape Provinces. [3] [4] Each plant produces a rosette of up to 70 succulent leaves, which occasionally produce aerial bulbs. [2] [5] The flowers are yellow and copper-coloured. [2] The sepals are of unequal sizes, hence the specific epithet "inaequalis", which is Latin for "unequal". [6] [7]