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Large flower pink-sorrel (Oxalis debilis)

Dlium Large flower pink-sorrel (Oxalis debilis)

Large flower pink-sorrel (Oxalis debilis) is a species of plant in the Oxalidaceae, a perennial shrub with erect stems, disk-shaped leaves, pink flowers, cosmopolitan, edible, grows in forests and farmlands in tropical and subtropical climates.

O. debilis has roots with tubers. The stem is cylindrical, erect, slender and green. Fruit in capsule form. Propagation by generative and vegetative.





Flowers have long stalks, sitting at the tip and the base has a green color. The crown has five sections, each elongated or elliptical, open to the top, light pink with yellow or pink pistil stripes.

The leaves have a long stalk, erect, circular and flattened with three or four parts, each part having the shape of a heart with a bone in the middle and several pinnate veins, thick and green.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Oxalis L. in Sp. Pl.: 433 (1753)
Subgenus: Oxalis
Section: Ionoxalis
Species: Oxalis debilis Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 5: 236 (1822)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Acetosella debilis (Kunth) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 92 (1891)
Sassia debilis (Kunth) Holub in Preslia 68: 285 (1996 publ. 1997)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Acetosella grandifolia (DC.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 92 (1891)
Acetosella martiana (Zucc.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 90 (1891)
Ionoxalis canaminensis Rusby in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 269 (1927)
Ionoxalis martiana (Zucc.) Small in Fl. S.E. U.S.: 665 (1903)
Oxalis bipunctata Graham in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 1827(Apr.-June): 176 (1827)
Oxalis bulbifera R.Knuth in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 310 (1919)
Oxalis caripensis Hieron. in Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 32 (1895)
Oxalis corymbosa DC. in Prodr. 1: 696 (1824)
Oxalis debilis subsp. corymbosa (DC.) O.Bolòs & Vigo in Fl. Països Catalans 2: 286 (1990)
Oxalis debilis var. corymbosa (DC.) Lourteig in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 67: 840 (1980 publ. 1981)
Oxalis gemella Willd. ex Zucc. in Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 146 (1823-1824 publ. 1825)
Oxalis grandifolia DC. in Prodr. 1: 696 (1824)
Oxalis huilensis R.Knuth in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 54 (1927)
Oxalis macrophylla Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 5: 237 (1822)
Oxalis martiana Zucc. in Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 144 (1823-1824 publ. 1825)
Oxalis martiana var. bipunctata (Graham) Lowe in Man. Fl. Madeira 1: 100 (1857)
Oxalis multibulbosa Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 36(I): 595 (1863)
Oxalis pynaertii De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo Belge, Bot., sér. 5, 3: 107 (1909)
Oxalis umbrosa Willd. ex Zucc. in Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 147 (1823-1824 publ. 1825)
Oxalis urbica A.St.-Hil. in Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 126 (1825)

PUBLICATIONS

Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.

Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.

Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri

Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic. Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.

Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.

Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Flora of North America North of Mexico 12: 1-603. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Greuter, W. & Raus, T. (eds.) (2008). Med-Checklist Notulae, 27. Willdenowia 38: 465-474.

Hassler, M. & Muer, T. (2022). Flora Germanica: alle Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Deutschlands in Text und Bild 1: 1-864. Verlag Regionalkultur, Uberstadt-Weiher.

Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.

Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.

Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1994). Oceanic Islands 1. Flora of Australia 49: 1-681. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.

Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.

Sauerbier, H., Cabrera Calixto, F. & Muer, T. (2023). Flora Vascular de Canarias: 1-1514. Turquesa.

Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.

Serviss, B.E. & Peck, J.H. (2013). Rediscovery of Persea borbonia var. borbonia (Lauraceae), Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa (Fabaceae), and Pinus palustris (Pinaceae) in Arkansas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 7: 841-845.

Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

Verloove, F. (2023). The seventh edition of the Nouvelle Flore de la Belgique: chorological adjustments. Dumortiera 122: 5-98.

Zuloaga, F.O. & Belgrano, M.J. (eds.) (2017). Flora Argentina. Flora vascular de la República Argentina 17: 1-434. INTA, IMBIV & IBODA.

Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

VERNACULAR NAME

Adi: Piyag Miu
Chinese (simplified): 红花酢浆草 - 大酸味草 - 大叶酢浆草 - 南天七 - 柔弱酢漿草 - 铜锤草
Chinese (traditional): 紅花酢漿草 - 紫花酢漿草 - 柔弱酢浆草 - 紫花酢漿草
Czech: šťavel cibulkatý
Dutch: Stippelklaverzuring
English: Kitiran, Pink Shamrock, Pink wood sorrel, Largeflower pink-sorrel, Pink woodsorrel, Large-flowered Pink-sorrel, Lavender Sorrel, Worldwide wood sorrel, World-wide wood-sorrel
French: Oxalis chétive
German: Pinker Waldklee
Indonesia: Kitiran
Italian: Acetosella debole
Japanese: ムラサキカタバミ
Java: Kitiran
Mizo: Siakthur-chi-khat
Portuguese: Azeda, Canuru-de-sapo
Russian: Кислица слабая
Slovak: Kyslička cibuľkatá
Spanish: Vinagrillo
Swedish: lökoxalis
Thai: ผักแว่นดอยดอกใหญ่
United Kingdom: Large-flowered Pink-sorrel

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