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Oxalidaceae                                             Oxalis Family

Low plants with sour watery juice; leaves palmate, usually trifoliate, delicate, basal or alternte; flowers regular, perfect, solitary or cymose or racemose; stamens usually 10 of 2 unequal lengths: 5 carpels, 5 styles; fruit a capsule.  Leaflets often strongly nyctitropic.

 

Oxalis oregana