Don, G. (1831), A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants 1: 761 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Native of the Cape of Good Hope."

common name: Bowie's Wood-sorrel [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 169 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 200 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Oxalidaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 493 [secondary reference]

common name: Bowie Wood Sorrel [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. & Stajsic, V. (June 2007), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 8: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oxalis bowieana Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Oxalis bowii G.Don orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Oxalis bowieana Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Oxalis bowiei Herb. ex Lindl. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Turner, I.M. (2016), Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons. Taxon 65(5): 1140 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oxalis bowieana Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Groom, Q.J. (2019), Typification of Oxalis bowiei W.T.Aiton ex G.Don (Oxalidaceae). Phytokeys 119: 28 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Lectotype, designated here: the illustration number 340 preserved at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) (Alternative number: 452), painted by Thomas Duncanson, is designated as the lectotype of Oxalis bowiei W.T.Aiton ex G.Don (Fig. 4). This was from material collected by Bowie in Caffraria [Kaffraria], East of the Great Fish River and brought home by him in 1823."

• Etymology: "Oxalis bowiei was collected by, and named after, James Bowie (circa 1789–2 July 1869) (Loddiges 1832). Bowie was employed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was sent as a botanical collector to the Cape of Good Hope between 1817 and 1823 (Smith and van Wyk 1989)."

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