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Oxalis magellanica
Oxalis magellanica or snowdrop wood-sorrel is an Oxalis species found in Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, and Tasmania. It was first described in 1789. It blooms from fall to spring with white flowers.
Its native distribution is puzzling given the wide geographic separation between its populations in Oceania and South America. It, along with other members of a clade within the section Oxalis that share a common ancestor dating back to roughly 30 Ma, have a strangely complex geographic distribution. This is especially perplexing given that the connection between Oceania and South America via Antarctica disappeared 35 million years ago, before the estimated diversification of the clade.
Wood-sorrel · Silver Shamrock · Radishroot woodsorrel · Alpine woodsorrel · Oxalis ambigua · Oxalis arenaria · Pink Sorrel · Oxalis aureoflava · Oxalis ausensis · Barrelier's woodsorrel · Oxalis bifida · Red-flower woodsorrel
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxalis magellanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
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