Oxalidaceae

Oxalidaceae R.Br., Narr. Exped. Zaire 433. 1818. nom. cons. 'Oxalis Family'

Characteristic Features:

Herbs, shrubs or small trees
Leaves pinnately or palmately compound (often trifoliate)
Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic and pentamerous
Stamens usually biseriate, outers having basal nectaries
Fruit a loculicidal capsule or berry

Diversity:

World- 8 genera 601 species (ThePlant List 2013); 5 genera, 570 species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016); 5 genera, 565 species (Mabberely 2017); 5 genera, 619 species (Roskov et al. 2021)
India - 2 genera 19 species (Karthikeyan 2000); 2 genera, 22 species (BSI, 2021)
Indian Himalaya- 2 genera, 13 species (Singh et al. 2019)
Uttarakhand - 2 genera 9 species (Uniyal et al. 2007, Pusalkar & Srivastava 2018)

General Characters:

Oxalidaceae in Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
Oxalidaceae in Stevens (2001 onwards)
Oxalidaceae in POWO 2021 (Plants of the World Online)
Oxalidaceae in Wikepedia

Systematic Position of the Family in Different Systems of Classifications:

Systematic position in 2-Superkingdom, 7-Kingdom classification of Ruggiero et al. (2015)

Super Kingdom- Eukaryota, Kingdom- Plantae, Subkingdom- Viridiplantae, Infrakingdom- Streptophyta, Superphylum- Embryophyta, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Subphylum- Spermatophytina, Superclass- Angiospermae, Class- Magnoliopsida, Superorder-Rosanae, Order-Oxalidales