Oxalidaceae, or thewood-sorrels family, is a family of five genera offlowering plants, with the great majority of the 570 species[2] in the genusOxalis. Members of this family typically have dividedleaves, with the leaflets showing "sleep movements", spreading open in light and closing in darkness.
Flowers in this family are perfect, meaning they have acalyx,corolla,gynoecium, andandroecium.Oxalidaceae tend to come in parts of 5, having fivesepals, fivepetals, and five fusedcarpels. The petals ofOxalidaceae flowers tend to be free, or just slightly fused at the base, appearing in red, yellow, white, purple to violet, but never blue.These plants tend to have asuperior ovary, that consists of five,fusedcarpels[4].Stamens tend to be fused inOxalidaceae plants, and in twowhorls of five, where the outer whorl lines up with the petals and tends to be shorter, while the inner whorl lines up with the sepals and tends to be longer[3].
^abcCocucci, A. A. (2004), Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.),"Oxalidaceae",Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 285–290,doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_32,ISBN978-3-662-07257-8, retrieved2026-02-07{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
