Oxalis chnoodes

Detailed description

Perennial herb lacking bulbils and taproot. Stems numerous, basally woody, creeping or decumbent up to 0.8 m long, not rooting at nodes; emergent stems densely invested in silky-white, spreading ± retrorse hairs; hairs shedding with stem maturation. Leaves cauline, fasciculate, 3-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, obovate-cuneate, 4-16 × 4-18 mm, bilobed, pale green, glaucescent, sparsely to densely pubescent above, more densely hairy below, margins ciliate, sinus up to 1/5 leaflet length, lobes oblong to obovate, apices rounded, 2-12 mm apart; petioles usually 0.50-40.0 mm long, densely covered with spreading hairs; stipules ± conspicuous or minute up to 1.5 mm long, truncate to abruptly tapering to petiole, chartaceous, densely hairy, margins densely ciliate. Inflorescences axillary, 2-4-flowered; peduncles longer than leaves, densely covered with spreading hairs; pedicels erect. Sepals elliptic 3.0-4.5 mm long, ciliate; petals 6-12 mm long, pale yellow. Capsule subglobose to ellipsoid, usually 7-9 mm long, retrorse-hairy with simple and septate hairs; seeds transversely ribbed.