Cardamine yunnanensis Franch., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 33: 398 1886. (syn: Cardamine bijiangensis W.T.Wang; Cardamine heterophylla T.Y.Cheo & R.C.Fang; Cardamine inayatii O.E.Schulz; Cardamine levicaulis W.T.Wang; Cardamine longistyla W.T.Wang; Cardamine muliensis W.T.Wang; Cardamine sikkimensis H.Hara; Cardamine sinica Rashid & H.Ohba; Cardamine weixiensis W.T.Wang);
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Himalaya to S. Central China: China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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Reported from Tamil Nadu as per India Biodiversity Portal
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Erect perennial or rarely annual herbs, about 15-50 cm tall. Rootstock slender rhizomatous, non stoloniferous. Stem simple or sparsely branched from the base, grooved or angled, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent to glabrous. Basal leaves usually withered by flowering. Leaves, not in rosulate, tri-penta foliate, lamina triangular or broadly ovate to oblong in outline, about 5-9 x 1.5-3.5 cm across, petiole about 1.5-7 cm long, leaflets lanceolate-ovate, about 5-30 x 4-24 mm across, base cuneate, margin irregularly lobed or toothed, ciliate, apex subacute to narrowly rounded, glabrous above and sparsely pubescent beneath, lateral leaflets near the base smallest later ascending towards the apex, terminal leaflet largest. Middle cauline leaves with 3-7 leaflets, similar to the lower leaves but shortly petiolate, upper cauline leaves usually trifoliate or rarely simple, petiole short to subsessile. Inflorescence racemes, terminal, few flowered, ebracteate. Flowers bisexual, white or pink, actinomorphic, about 5 mm across, pedicel erect, ascending, slender, divaricate, aboiut 0.5-2 cm long, sepals 4, suberect, oblong, caducous, margins membranous, basal pair not saccate, about 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm across , petals 4, obovate, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse, about 3.5-6 x 2-3 mm across. Stamens 6, anthers oblong, about 0.5-0.9 mm long, nectar glands 4 confluent, lateral pairs about 2.5-3 mm long, median pair about 2.5-4.5 mm long, ovary superior, bicarpellary, syncarpous, cylindrical, ovules 8-20, style about 0.5-1.2 mm long, stigma capitate. Fruit siliqua, dehiscent, compressed, linear, tapering near the base and apex, subcylindric, short, erect, valves smooth, indistinctly midveined, dehiscing explosively, about 2-6 x 0.1-0.15 cm long. Seeds uniseriate, not winged, compressed, globose-oblong, finely turberculate, brown, about 1.5-2 mm long.
SK 2793 19 October 2020 : 15 posts by 2 authors. 8 images- 4 to 7 mb each.
I think it looks different from images at Cardamine flexuosa With. as well as existing species as per comparative images at Cardamine
Could not match unless this is a different sp.
Any resemblance to the enclosed efi image ?
Thank you …! I think you are right !
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Name: Cardamine flexuosa
Family: Brassicaceae
Location: River bank at eastern part of Nilgiris
Alt: 300 -400 MSL
Date: 10 Feb 2011
It is also reported from Tamilnadu as per India Biodiversity Portal
