Photographs are really wonderful Sir. From these pictures, I assume that spotted leaves, much elongated petiole and clustering of many flowers in an umbel inflorescence are good field characters of this species.
Thanks & Regards, Sukla On Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:57:24 PM UTC-6, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > *Oxalis pes-caprae* L., Sp. Pl. 434. 1753. > syn: > > > Common name: Bermuda buttercup > > This interesting species with distinctive purple dots on slightly > succulent leaves in a basal rosette and large 2.5-3 cm across yellow > flowers in an umbel on a long scape, I had seen growing occasionally in > lawns on roadsides in California, but this year I saw a huge field of this > species soon after the Brassica crop died down in autumn. I held it back > till I found this plant being depicted at Delhi University Flower Show a > few days back. Incidentally the species also features in eFlora of > Pakistan, eFlora of China, before that Flora of Upper Gangetic Plains and > probably reported from many other places in India. > > Perennial stemless herb with many bulbs seated on a rhizome; leaves > numnerous, up to 40 in number, in basal rosette; petiole up to 20 cm long; > leaflets 3, 2-3.5 cm long, obcordate, often with several small purple > spots, hairy beneath; flowers golden yellow, 2-3 cm across, in up to > 20-flowered umbellate cyme, carried on up to 30 cm long scape; sepals > lanceolate, lanceolate to oblong, with often 2 orange tubercles at tip; > petals golden yellow, up to 2.5 cm long; filament 5-7 mm long, hairy; > > Photographed as cultivated herb in Delhi, and growing wild in California. > Naturalised in many places in world and often cultivated. > > I HAVE FEELING THAT PLANT DEPICTED ON FLOWERS OF INDIA WEBSITE AS OXALIS > STRICTA IS ACTUALLY THIS SPECIES. THERE IS A LONE PHOTOGRAPH OF > INFLORESCENCE ON THE WEBSITE BUT LOOKING AT THE SIZE OF FLOWERS IT APPEARS > TO BE O. PES-CAPRAE ONLY. O. STRICTA MUST BE REMEMBERED IS MUCH SIMILAR TO > O. CORNICULATA WITH SMALLER FLOWERS AND MORE IMPORTANT BRANCHED STEM. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
