Oxalis frutescens (Cultivated)

Oxalis frutescens L., Sp. Pl. 435 1753. (syn: Acetosella bahiensis (Prog.) Kuntze; Acetosella diffusa (Pohl ex Prog.) Kuntze; Acetosella distans (A. St.-Hil.) Kuntze; Acetosella frutescens (L.) Kuntze; Acetosella neaei Kuntze; Acetosella pentantha (Jacq.) Kuntze; Acetosella pilosissima Kuntze; Acetosella schomburgkiana (Prog.) Kuntze; Lotoxalis frutescens (L.) Small; Lotoxalis neaei Rose; Lotoxalis pentantha Rose; Lotoxalis yucatanensis Rose; Monoxalis robusta Rose; Oxalis avilensis Pittier; Oxalis bahiensis Prog.; Oxalis camporum T. S. Brandeg.; Oxalis chacoensis Knuth; Oxalis charaguensis Knuth; Oxalis coarctata Knuth; Oxalis coccinea R. E. Woodson & Schery; Oxalis cruzeirensis Knuth; Oxalis descolei Knuth; Oxalis diffusa Pohl ex Prog.; Oxalis distans A. St.-Hil.; Oxalis frutescens Ruiz & Pav. ex G. Don (ambiguous synonym); Oxalis frutescens var. margaritensis R. Knuth; Oxalis frutescens subsp. pentantha (Jacq.) Lourteig; Oxalis glaucifolia Knuth; Oxalis guatemalensis Knuth; Oxalis harmsiana Knuth; Oxalis hedysarifolia Raddi (ambiguous synonym); Oxalis herzogii Knuth; Oxalis hispida Mart. ex Zucc.; Oxalis jahnii Pittier; Oxalis leptophylla G. Don (ambiguous synonym); Oxalis littoralis Pohl ex Prog. (ambiguous synonym); Oxalis mairaryensis Knuth; Oxalis neaei DC.; Oxalis nodulosa Pittier; Oxalis pentantha Jacq.; Oxalis robusta (Rose ex Small) Knuth; Oxalis schomburgkiana Prog.; Oxalis schomburgkiana var. lasiocarpa Progel; Oxalis schomburgkiana var. leiocarpa Progel; Oxalis stenomeres S. F. Blake; Oxalis yucatanensis (Rose) Riley; Oxalis yucatanensis Knuth);          
                
Argentina (Catamarca, Formosa, Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman), Paraguay (Alto Paraguay,
Concepcion, Pres. Hayes), Costa Rica, Peru, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana,
N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Amazonas, Tocantins, Acre), NE-Brazil (Maranhao,
Piaui, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe), WC-Brazil (Mato
Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul), SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de
Janeiro), Ecuador, Bolivia (Beni, Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Belize,
Nicaragua, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guerrero,
Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana
Roo, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Guatemala, Panama, Lesser
Antilles (Dominica, Grenadines, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), Isla
Margarita, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela (Apure, Aragua, Bolivar, Carabobo,
Distrito Federal, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Sucre,
Tachira, Zulia), Colombia (La Guajira, Magdalena, San Andrs, Providencia y Santa
Catalina, Vichada), Honduras, El Salvador as per Catalogue of Life;

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Requesting to please ID this plant in a nursery in Lonavala, Maharashtra in October 2013.

May be any Jasminum..

Any Reinwardtia ??

Can it be some Oxalis species?

This has been identified by … as Oxalis frutescens on FB.

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