Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 433 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Aethiopia."

Black, J.M. (1913), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 7. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 37: 121 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 485 [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 172 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 102 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Oxalidaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 20 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 728 [secondary reference]

common name: Fingerleaf Oxalis [n/a] common name: Pinkbulb Soursob [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - APC [secondary reference]

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

Ferrer-Gallego, P.P. & Altinordu, F. (23 December 2015), Typification of the Linnaean names Oxalis flava and O. versicolor (Oxalidaceae). Phytotaxa 239(2): 191 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): [icon] “Oxalis bulbosae, simplici caule, fere aphyllo; flore luteo” in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 76, t. 30, f. 1. 1738. (Fig. 1)."

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