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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Brassicaceae
Cardamine paucijuga

Citation: Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27, 2:295 (1854).

Synonymy: C. intermedia Hornem. subsp. antipodum O. Schulz, Bot. Jb. 32:486 (1903).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb, mostly erect to 40 cm tall, usually glabrous; leaves petiolate, pinnate, with 1-4 pairs of pinnae, ovate to linear.

Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, sometimes purple, margins white; petals 2.5-3.5 mm long, white, rarely pink; stamens 6.

Siliqua linear, 10-30 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, erect; style slender or obtuse, to 1 mm long; pedicels in fruit spreading, 3-15 mm long; seeds ovoid to oblong, compressed, slightly winged, 1-1.5 mm long.

image of FSA1_Cardamine_pau.jpg Cardamine paucijuga
Image source: fig 211e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Grows in rich soils in moist to dry habitats.

S.Aust.: SL, KI.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly June — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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