Cardamine africana

Cardamine africana L., Sp. Pl.: 655 (1753) (syn: Cardamine africana var. allevia (Comm. ex DC.) O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine africana var. arabica (DC.) O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine africana proles borbonica (Pers.) O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine allevia Comm. ex DC. ; Cardamine anteniquana Burch. ex DC. ; Cardamine borbonica Pers. ; Cardamine borbonica var. allevia DC. ; Cardamine borbonica var. arabica DC. ; Cardamine burchellii Spreng. ; Cardamine hirsuta var. major Thwaites ; Cardamine holtziana Engl. & O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine innovans O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine javanica (Blume) Miq. ; Cardamine laxa var. pumila A.Gray ; Cardamine ovata var. corymbosa Britton ; Cardamine ovata var. unijuga O.E.Schulz ; Cardamine porphyrophylla Ekman ex Urb. ; Cardamine rubifolia Sm. ex DC. ; Cardamine ternata Bory ex DC. ; Cardamine wightiana Wall. ; Pteroneurum javanicum Blume ) ;
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Tropical & S. Africa, N. Yemen, India to W. Malesia: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Comoros, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sumatera, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Peru, Venezuela as per POWO;
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Weak herbs to 15 cm high, branches scarce. Leaflets 4 x 2 cm, lyrate, glabrous above, sparsely hairy below; petiole 5 cm long, slender. Raceme terminal, few-flowered. Flowers 8 mm across, pedicellate; sepals linear; petals 5 mm long, clawed; stamens 6, tetradynamous, filaments glabrous. Pod 4 cm long; seeds 2 x 0.5 mm, narrowly oblong, smooth.
Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year
Degraded forest areas and plantations at high ranges
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal )
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664 ID wild plant: 6 high res. images.
Please ID wild plant,

Location:Vattavada Munnar Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 6600fsl
Flower date: 06DEC2024, 03.30pm
Habitat: wild moisture evergreen sloppy misty canopied shola highland 
Plant habit: small branched trailing/procumbent herb, weak slender fleshy cylindrical stem 02.5mm diameter, annual
Height: 10cm
Leaves: alternate tripinnate, leaflets elliptic/heart shaped acute flexible serrated margins hairy, size upto: 07×4cm
Flower: axillary umbel inflorescence, greenish yellow, fragrant diameter:04mm
Fruit: beans green lengthy cylindrical upright size: 03×0.3cm
Seed: upto 15 nos.


Cardamine africana L.


Yes, it is Cardamine africana dear …, thank you very much for ID my plant


 

 

 

 

 


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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  WFO  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of Mozambique  Flora of peninsular India India Biodiversity Portal

Updated on May 10, 2025

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