• Family : Oxalidaceae
  (Wood Sorrel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMRUL FAMILY (अम्रुल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Oxalidaceae
• Synonym(s) : Acetosella corniculata (L.) Kuntze
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Oxalis corniculata L.
• Common name : Creeping Wood Sorrel
• Vernacular name : Amrul (Hindi); Amrulshak (Bengali); Charee Amilo (Nepali)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On disturbed soil on roadsides and in cultivation
• Comments / notes : Foliage eaten as a vegetable and as a cure for scurvy
• Key identification features : Procumbent hairy herb. Flower yellow. Capsule tomentose, cylindric
• Flower, Fruit : March-June
• Distribution :
  • Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district,Kangra district,Kinnaur district,Kullu district,Shimla district
  • Meghalaya : East Khasi Hills (Shillong) district
• Native : Mexico to Venezuela and Peru, Caribbean
• Exotic/Native : Exotic
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press:68; Grierson A.J.C & Long D.G (1983). Flora of Bhutan Vol.1 (3):742; Balakrishnan, N. P. (1983). Flora of Jowai Vol.1. Published BSI: 109; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 1. Published BSI: 132; Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 52
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Oxalis corniculata. Downloaded on 3 December 2023.

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