Cardamine africana (Brassicaceae(mustard family) in karnataka)

Cardamine africana

Brief ⁴

Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb Distribution notes: Exotic

Cyclicity ⁵

Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year

Description ⁶

Slender perennial herb, 40-60 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets up to 4 × 3 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy; apex pointed to rounded; margin crenate-dentate. Flowers in corymbose racemes, white to greenish, c. 6 mm in diameter. Fruit a straight, linear siliqua, 25-45 mm, flattened, tapering gradually. Seeds ellipsoid, flattened, brownish.

Diagnostic ⁷

"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."

Distribution ⁸

"Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Mysore Kerala: Idukki Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli"

General habitat ⁹

Degraded forest areas and plantations at high ranges

Worldwide distribution ¹⁰

Widespread in mountainous areas of Tropical and South Africa. Also in India and Brazil

URL(key) ¹¹

http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=970&cat=1

Sources and Credits

(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124270-2.jpg
(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124270-6.jpg
(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124270-8.jpg
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26054678
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26054681
(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30279296
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26336572
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26336574
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26054683
(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30279297
(c) Chandan Pandey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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