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Connarus suberosus Connarus suberosus (c) Fabrício Mil Homens Riella · Distrito Federal, Brazil · CC BY
Order

Oxalidales

Called “Woodsorrels, Quandongs, And Allies” in GBIF

Oxalidales is an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. This group comprises seven families that contain approximately 2000 species in 58 genera. They are trees, shrubs or woody vines which are found in the wet tropics, particularly on mountains, and warm temperate zones, especially in the southern hemisphere. Compound leaves are common in Oxalidales and the majority of the species in this order have five or six sepals and petals. The following families are typically placed here:Family Brunelliaceae Family Cephalotaceae Family Connaraceae Family Cunoniaceae Family Elaeocarpaceae Family Huaceae Family Oxalidaceae

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2,236
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
105
genera in GBIF
Source: GBIF
4
plants on Plant News
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Plants in this order

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Families in this order

Also here, with one plant each: Connaraceae (Connarus suberosus), Cunoniaceae (Ulmo).

Research on Oxalidales

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What science is finding about Oxalidales

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this order, newest first.

eco

Scientists gene-edit a popular purple houseplant for the first time

The velvety purple 'Sunset Velvet' oxalis on windowsills everywhere could soon come in new colors and hardier forms, now that...

Oxalis vulcanicola 'Sunset Velvet' crispr / propagation

A High-Resolution Multifocal RGB Pollen Grain Image Dataset for Deep Learning Computer Vision Tasks from Biobío Region, Chile.

Native Chilean trees like the ulmo and quillay — whose pollen this dataset captures in unprecedented detail — are keystones of...

Ulmo pollinators / native-plants

violet woodsorrel (Oxalis violacea) observed in Kentucky, US

Violet woodsorrel thriving in Kentucky meadows and open woodlands signals healthy native ground cover that supports early...

violet woodsorrel native-plants / citizen-science