Oxalis (genus)
Wood Sorrel at Sandringham, VIC
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| Oxalis corniculata | JasonPStewart | 18 Jul 2025 | |
| Oxalis (genus) | JasonPStewart | 17 Jul 2025 | |
| Oxalis (genus) | JasonPStewart | 17 Jul 2025 |
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_Oxalis_ (genus) 'wood sorrel' .
Healthy plants, alien weed species or local indigenous species, to again check ID?
Fruits growing, foliage, indumentum, and habit .
Heathland sanctuary, south of Bay Rd., Sandringham, Melb..
2016 December 10th 12:14–12:16 pm .
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18 Jul 2025
Features shown in these photographs:
• Hairs on fruit, retrorse, dense, ±appressed, pale or white coloured .
• Erect plant .
• Main axis stem including just above the ground leaves'–litter has hairs clearly spreading to some retrorse .
• Main axis stem leaves have conspicuous stipules beside the petioles' bases, comparatively I estimate longer than 1.5 mm, but cannot see them clearly enough here to tell if truncate.
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• Hairs on fruit, retrorse, dense, ±appressed, pale or white coloured .
• Erect plant .
• Main axis stem including just above the ground leaves'–litter has hairs clearly spreading to some retrorse .
• Main axis stem leaves have conspicuous stipules beside the petioles' bases, comparatively I estimate longer than 1.5 mm, but cannot see them clearly enough here to tell if truncate.
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Location information
- Coordinates 145.027610-37.955480
- Places Sandringham, VIC
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 10 Dec 2016 12:14 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Collections
- 2016 Dec. 10th Heathland Sanctuary beside Bay Road vascular plants survey i did. JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 NatureMapr Oxalis (genus) Other Wildflowers & Herbs Plants
Species information
- Oxalis (genus) Scientific name
- Wood Sorrel Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1575.03m Recorded at altitude
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Was the plant in flower?
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