Family: Brassicaceae
Cardamine tenuifolia
Citation:
Hook., J. Bot. (Hooker) 1:247 (1834).
Synonymy: C. pratensis L. var. tenuifolia (Hook.)Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 1:19 (1855); C. hirsuta L. var. tenuifolia (Hook.)Rodway, Fl. Tasm. 6 (1903); C. finitima O. Schulz, Bot. Jb. 32:537 (1903).
Common name: Slender bitter cress.
Description:
Perennial herb, rhizomatous or stoloniferous; stems weak, to 1 m long, glabrous; leaves pinnate, with 1-5 pinnae, pinnae ovate to filiform, reducing towards the apex.
Sepals 2-5 mm long; petals 5-12 mm long, white or lilac; stamens 6.
siliqua linear, 15-40 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, erect to spreading, rarely overtopping the inflorescence; style 1.5-3 mm long; pedicels in fruit spreading to horizontal, 1-3 cm long; seeds ovoid to oblong, compressed, with or without a slight wing, 1-2 mm long.
Distribution:
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Found in swamps.
S.Aust.: SE. Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — March.
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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:
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Author:
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