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.
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Image source: fig 211e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Grows in rich soils in moist to dry habitats.
S.Aust.: SL, KI. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly June — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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