Oxalis latifolia Kunth - broadleaf woodsorrel
MH031 : Oxalis latifolia Kunth
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 68 |
| Synonym | : | - |
| Plant Common Name | : | K-Khatta Zara,, garden pink-sorrel, broadleaf woodsorrel, khati-buti; phiphru; tipatia weed |
| Plant Family | : | Oxalidaceae |
| Description | : | Plants glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Bulbils clustered or solitary and arising from the stolons. Leaflets 15—40 mm long, 30—70 mm broad, triangular in outline, glabrous. Scapes 1—4, up to 30 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, slender. Flowers many, subumbellate. Pedicel 1-1.8 cm long, glabrous. Sepals 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, tip with a reddish brown callus. Petals c. 10 mm long, pink. Both long and short filaments strigose; shorter filaments equal in length to the styles. Fl. Per. June-August. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chikhaldara , Kolkaz, growing in shade rest house compounds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242424040 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Geraniales |
| Family | : Oxalidaceae - Wood-Sorrel family |
| Genus | : Oxalis L. - woodsorrel |
| Species | : Oxalis latifolia Kunth - broadleaf woodsorrel |