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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Oxalidaceae

OXALIDACEAE

Fls perfect, regular, 5-merous, solitary or in cymes, hypog. Sepals us. imbricate; petals contorted; stamens 10 (sts 5 imperfect) connate at base. Ovary us. 5-celled; ovules axile, 1-(; styles us. 5. Fr. a loculicidal capsule; seeds with cop. endosperm and us. elastic testa. Mostly herbs or subshrubs with alt., compound, exstipulate lvs. Some 8 tropical to temperate genera with about 900 spp.

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