Botanical Family · Oxalidales
Oxalidaceae
Wood sorrel family
10 speciesOrder Oxalidales8+ well-known plants
Plants with trifoliate leaves that fold at night (nyctinasty). Sour taste from oxalic acid. Includes wood sorrel and carambola (star fruit).
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How to recognise the Oxalidaceae family
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Leaf arrangement: alternate
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Leaf type: trifoliate
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Growth forms: herb/shrub/tree
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Inflorescence: cymose umbel
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Fruit: capsule/berry
Typical leaf characters
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
Typical flower & fruit
- Flower symmetryVariable
- InflorescenceVariable
- FruitBerry
Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.
Notable members
Bilimbi, Tree Sorrel, KamiasAverrhoa bilimbiCarombola Apple, Star Fruit TreeAverrhoa carambolaSlender Tree PlantBiophytum reinwardtiiLittle Tree Plant, Sensitive PlantBiophytum sensitivumCommon Sorrel, Indian Sorrel, Yellow Wood, Creeping Oxalis, Creeping Wood-Sorrel, IndaOxalis corniculataLarge-Flowered Pink SorrelOxalis debilisBroad-Leaved SorelOxalis latifoliaLove Plant, Purple ShamrockOxalis triangularis
All 10 species in OXALIDACEAE
- Bilimbi, Tree Sorrel, KamiasAverrhoa bilimbi
- Carombola Apple, Star Fruit TreeAverrhoa carambola
- Slender Tree PlantBiophytum reinwardtii
- Little Tree Plant, Sensitive PlantBiophytum sensitivum
- Common Sorrel, Indian Sorrel, Yellow Wood, Creeping Oxalis, Creeping Wood-Sorrel, IndaOxalis corniculata
- Large-Flowered Pink SorrelOxalis debilis
- Broad-Leaved SorelOxalis latifolia
- Love Plant, Purple ShamrockOxalis triangularis
- Biophytum candolleanum
- Biophytum nervifolium
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