PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / OXALIDALES / OXALIDACEAE / OXALIS / AMBIGUA
Stemless or the stem sometimes shortly exserted, usually 4-12 cm high, more or less finely pubescent, more rarely with some glandular hairs admixed or almost all the hairs glandular. Bulb ovoid, acute at the base and apex, often 2-4 cm long, with hardish dark brown gummy tunics. Stem scarcely exserted or more often 1-2 cm long or longer, robust, fleshy, leafless, with a few semiamplexicaul scales. Leaves 15-30, clustered at the apex of the stem, with petioles 2-6 cm long; leaflets 3, often emarginate, pubescent on both sides, ciliate with simple or rarely glandular hairs, rarely purple-mottled, sprinkled on the underside with numerous small blackish dots (sometimes with translucent red centres), the medial shortly petiolulate, cuneate-rotund, cuneate-obovate or cuneate-oblong, often tapering attenuately to the base, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1.1 cm broad, or rarely oblong, 4-7 times as long as broad, the lateral subsessile, oblique, usually rather smaller. Peduncles 1-fld., shorter or longer than the leaves, with 2 small opposite bracts at an articulation above the middle. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, ciliate, minutely bicallose at the apex. Corolla 1.8-2.8 cm long, white, yellow or cream-coloured, with a rather widely funnel-shaped yellow tube; laminae of the petals broadly cuneate-obovate, purple-striate towards the outer margin, rather longer than the tapering claw. Filaments, the shorter 2.5-4.5 mm, the longer 4-7.5 mm long, glabrous or minutely glandular-pilose, with rather long subacute teeth. Ovary pubescent on the upper part, with numerous orange-red calli reaching nearly to the base, the chambers about 9-ovuled; styles pubescent below, glandular-pilose above. Capsule not exserted. Seeds endospermous. From: Salter, TM. 1944. The genus Oxalis in South Africa: A taxonomic revision. J. S. African Bot. 1: 1-355. [CC BY]
Acaulescent or shortly stemmed, ± finely pubescent geophyte, 40-120 mm tall. Bulb tunics ± hard, gummy, dark brown. Leaves clustered basally or at stem apex, leaflets 3, black-dotted beneath, cuneate-rotund to cuneate-oblong, entire or often notched, pubescent, rarely mixed with glandular hairs. Flowers 1 per peduncle with opposite bracts in upper half, white, yellow or cream-coloured, with a wide yellow tube, petals purplish near margin, peduncle arching below leaves in fruit. From: Snijman, DA; Dreyer, LL; Oberlander, KC. 2013. Oxalidaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 428-437. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Among granite rocks and in deep sand. From: Salter, TM. 1944. The genus Oxalis in South Africa: A taxonomic revision. J. S. African Bot. 1: 1-355. [CC BY]
Among granite rocks and in deep sand. From: Snijman, DA; Dreyer, LL; Oberlander, KC. 2013. Oxalidaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 428-437. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Kamiesberg Mountains to Bitterfontein. From: Salter, TM. 1944. The genus Oxalis in South Africa: A taxonomic revision. J. S. African Bot. 1: 1-355. [CC BY]
Kamieskroon and Kamiesberg Mountains to Bitterfontein. From: Snijman, DA; Dreyer, LL; Oberlander, KC. 2013. Oxalidaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 428-437. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
June to July
580 to 671 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Oxalis exaltata Jacq.
Oxalis ferruginata Jacq.
Oxalis flaccida Jacq.
Oxalis mutabilis Sond.
Oxalis rubroflora Jacq.
Oxalis undulata Jacq.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Oxalidales
FAMILY Oxalidaceae
GENUS Oxalis
SPECIES ambigua
78 results for Oxalis ambigua Jacq.
Year
Barcode: NBG0106660-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1574 | 1932-5-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Between Garies and Kamieskroon.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106712-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 870B | 1932-5-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0454774-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6662 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; 22 MI W. OF GARIES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0053854-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 3395 | 1933-7-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 5 miles W of Garies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0253421-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 6335 | 2009-6-18
South Africa, Western Cape, 1 km, SW of Kotzesrus, on small hill. 30°57'58.3" S; 17°49'53.8" E.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0632857-0 Collector(s) & number: Craven, P, 4111 | 1993-5-26
Namibia, Karas, S. Namibia, Farm Spielberg near Chumberg, mountain NW of Asbosvlakte.
General notes: Semi-desert. Slope: moderate to level. Flower: tube 1,2cm long, leaves flattened on ground. Collected often, but never before with flowers.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528066-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4112 | 1985-5-23
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Hondeklipbaai. 12 Km W. Kamieskroon.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0053652-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1574 | --
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: Form A. Flowered in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, April 1933.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106658-1 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6665 | 1932-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 22 miles west of Garies.
General notes: Form A. Corolla cream. Salter 6662.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106668-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 7277 | 1938-5-30
South Africa, Western Cape, Vanrhynsdorp Div. West slope of Giftberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0459303-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 19311 | 1957-7-19
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; GARIES; 6 MI. NW. OF GARIES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0008884-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1574 | 1938-8-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Between Kamieskroon and Garies.
General notes: Form A. Flowered in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, 4 May 1938. Bulb, June 1942. Corolla white. Cited.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106658-2 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6665 | 1932-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 22 miles west of Garies.
General notes: Form A. Corolla yellow. Salter 6665.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528062-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 2798 | 1982-5-7
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Kamiesberg. S.E. Garies. Grysklip. (W).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0569150-0 Collector(s) & number: Le Roux, A, LM6405 | 1997-8-11
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Springbok. Goegap Nature Reserve. West of Klippas.
General notes: Loamy-sandy (coarse-sand) soil derived from gneiss on colluvial cone at feet of gneiss koppie. Biotic effect: heavily grazed before. JNP sampling plot 1997. No: (TV50896)/3.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0052556-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6665 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 22 miles West of Garies.
General notes: Form A. Cor. yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204732-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 5576 | 1935-7-1
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 6 miles South of Garies.
General notes: Form with rotund leaflets.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0145588-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 2798 | 1982-5-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Kamiesberg. Greysklip (W). [Grysklip]
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106714-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 803B | 1932-5-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, April-May 1932. Flowers white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0049484-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 807 | 1931-6-6
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: The brown mottling on the leaves disappears when the plant is dried.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0459302-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, PRE 16351 | 1931-6-6
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; KAMIESKROON
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204227-0 Collector(s) & number: Manning, JC, 2225 | 1999-5-28
South Africa, Northern Cape, Hondeklipbaai. Karkams, 25 km N of Garies.
General notes: Granite dome, damp loamy pockets. Flowers white with yellow cup.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106672-2 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2520 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, Vanrhynsdorp Dist. 10 miles N of Bitterfontein.
General notes: Form C. Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, 20 May 1933. Flowers yellow. Very few short gland-tipped hairs on margins of leaflets.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0052555-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6662 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 22 miles West of Garies.
General notes: Form A. Cor. cream.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528065-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4062 | 1984-5-22
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Hondeklipbaai. Garies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528067-0 Collector(s) & number: Forrester, JA, 426 | 1983-9-5
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Hondeklipbaai. Near dirt road on W side N7. Just N. of Darters Grave.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528068-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 2219A | 1980-6-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Kamieskroon. Rooiberg Peak, Garies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528063-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4118 | 1985-5-24
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Hondeklipbaai. 5 km N. Garies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1528064-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4084 | 1984-5-23
South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Region. Kamiesberg. Die Kruis.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106662-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1573 | 1932-4-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 2 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Form B. Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, April-June 1932. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204148-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1574 | 1935-4-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles north of Garies.
General notes: Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, April 1935.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204735-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1573 | --
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, April 1935.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106707-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 803B | 1931-6-6
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Agrees very well with Bol. Herb: 19128. Flowers white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0454773-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2529 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; GARIES; 1,5 MI. N. OF GARIES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204246-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 807 | 1935-4-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, April 1935.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106669-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2522 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, 19 miles N of Bitterfontein.
General notes: Form C. See specimen: A. Hairs simple; B. Hairs simple mixed with shorter gland-tipped hairs. Leaflets not dotted. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204242-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 5574 | 1935-7-1
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 4 miles N of Garies.
General notes: O. tricolor renamed O. mutabilis by Sonder without excuse. Typical form.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0848678-0 Collector(s) & number: Koekemoer, M, 3826 | 2009-8-20
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namakwa National Park. Farm Roodelaagte. Jeep track W of Jantjieskop farm ruins.
General notes: No slope.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0991980-0 Collector(s) & number: Sepheka, KW, 123 | 2009-8-21
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqua National Park. Dik Nek Farm. Along Spoegrivier river bank.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0454771-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6662 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; 22 MI. W. OF GARIES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0995874-0 Collector(s) & number: Steyn, HM, 1759 | 2010-4-3
South Africa, Northern Cape, Kenhardt District. Farm Rooiput between Putsonderswater & Kenhardt.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0145574-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 2219A | 1980-6-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Garies. Rooiberg Peak.
General notes: Peak. Photograph included.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0008887-2 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 803B | 1938-5-9
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: Flowered in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, 9 May 1938. Corolla white. Cited.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106667-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 3394 | 1933-7-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 9 miles south of Garies.
General notes: Form C. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0145515-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 2210 | 1980-6-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Kamiesberg. Garies.
General notes: Photograph included.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106665-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 3407 | 1933-7-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles west of Garies.
General notes: Form C. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106664-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2529 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 1-2 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Form B. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106713-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 803B | 1931-6-6
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. The leaves are dotted with black glands with transparent red centres. Flowers white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106657-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6656 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 11 miles west of Garies.
General notes: Cor. yellow. Intermediate between Forms A + B.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106661-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 5574 | 1935-7-1
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 4 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Form B. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106711-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, BOL 19128 | 1932-6-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Near Bowesdorp.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Hort. L. Bolus, Claremont, June 1932. From the "Type" bulbs, showing the lengthening of the peduncle in cultivation. Flowers white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106674-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 6668 | 1937-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 24 miles West of Garies.
General notes: Form D. Corolla white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106671-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2527 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles S of Garies.
General notes: Form C. Hairs simple, mixed with shorter glandular hairs. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0499347-0 Collector(s) & number: Rosch, MW, 1141 | 1975-5-14
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; HESTER MALAN NAT. RE; NABY WEERSTASIE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0145798-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4070 | 1984-5-23
South Africa, Northern Cape, Kamiesberg. 27 km N Garies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106710-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 807 | 1931-6-6
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Leaves brown-mottled.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106708-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2558 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 14 miles S of Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Petals white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106663-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2529 | 1935-6-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 2 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Form B. Flowered in cultivation, Rosebank, June 1935. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106670-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 922 | 1931-6-15
South Africa, Northern Cape, Vanrhynsdorp Div. 10 miles N of Bitterfontein.
General notes: Form C. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0008887-1 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 803B | 1938-6-2
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles NW of Garies.
General notes: Form C. Flowers yellow. Salter & Creasey NBG 884/37 (Creasey 24).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0454772-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 3394 | 1933-7-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; GARIES; 9 MI. S. OF GARIES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0008886-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2520 | 1941-5-
South Africa, Western Cape, Vanrhynsdorp Div. 10 miles N of Bitterfontein.
General notes: Form C. Flowered in cultivation, May 1941. Flowers yellow. Cited.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106709-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 870B | 1941-5-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamieskroon.
General notes: O. ambigua var. fuscata. Flowered in cultivation, Kirstenbosch, May 1941. Flowers white.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0052632-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, 3395 | 1937-7-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Garies Dist.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0204243-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 3094 | 1976-5-15
South Africa, Northern Cape, Loxton. "Request" SE of Carnarvon. Roadside.
General notes: Disturbed shale - roadside. Occasional, yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0008885-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 1573 | 1938-5-9
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 3 miles N of Garies.
General notes: Form B. Flowered in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, 9 May 1938. Bulb June 1942. Fls. bright yellow. Cited.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106666-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 3395 | 1933-7-4
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 5 miles west of Garies.
General notes: Form C. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0106672-1 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 2520 | 1932-7-13
South Africa, Western Cape, 10 miles N of Bitterfontein.
General notes: Form C. Hairs all simples. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2013
SERIES CHAPTER
Oxalidaceae Snijman, DA; Dreyer, LL; Oberlander, KCIn: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 428-437
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1944
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
The genus Oxalis in South Africa: A taxonomic revision Salter, TMJournal of South African Botany 1: 1-355
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Status and criteria
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Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
BOOK
Neças, P. 2004. Chameleons - Nature's Hidden Jewels.. Edition Chimaira
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tolley, K.A. and Measey, G.J. 2007. Chameleons and vineyards in the Western Cape of South Africa: Is automated grape harvesting a threat to the Cape Dwarf Chameleon (<i>Bradypodion pumilum</i>)?. African Journal of Herpetology. 56:85-89
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