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Showing Oxalis bowiei
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Rosanae(superordo)
- Oxalidales(ordo)
- Oxalidaceae(fam.)
- Oxalis(gen.)
- bowiei(sp.)
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Type: "Native of the Cape of Good Hope."
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APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)
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Lectotype: "Lectotype, designated here: the illustration number 340 preserved at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) (Alternative number: 452), painted by Thomas Duncanson, is designated as the lectotype of Oxalis bowiei W.T.Aiton ex G.Don (Fig. 4). This was from material collected by Bowie in Caffraria [Kaffraria], East of the Great Fish River and brought home by him in 1823."
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Etymology: "Oxalis bowiei was collected by, and named after, James Bowie (circa 1789–2 July 1869) (Loddiges 1832). Bowie was employed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was sent as a botanical collector to the Cape of Good Hope between 1817 and 1823 (Smith and van Wyk 1989)."