Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Oxalis megalorrhiza
vinagrillo, culle, fleshy yellow sorrel
Perennial plant with stout, dark, fleshy rhizomes and numerous leaves. The sepals are unequal and 1-3 flowers per inflorescence (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Geraniales
Family
Oxalidaceae
Genus
Oxalis
Species
megalorrhiza
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Acetosella megalorrhiza (Jacq.) Kuntze. In Andersson (1855), Robinson (1902) and Stewart (1911) as Oxalis carnosa fide Wiggins & Porter.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Galápagos, Peru to N. Chile (POWO, 2023).
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
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"Galapagos Species Database, Oxalis megalorrhiza", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=649. Accessed 7 May 2025.