Cardamine
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Description
Annual, biennial or perennial, small to large herbs, with a taproot and often with creeping or tuberous rhizomes.
Hairs often present, simple.
Sepals not saccate, not spreading;
Petals white, cream, violet or purple, spathulate to clawed, sometimes lacking.
Stamens 6-4, rarely fewer;
Ovary cylindrical, usually with a short narrower style;
Fruit a siliqua, dehiscent, linear, straight, tapered towards the narrow style;
Seeds uniseriate, flattened, usually broadly elliptic to oblong, minutely rugose to colliculate, not mucilaginous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, subarctic, temperate, and montane tropical areas all over the world present
In subarctic, temperate, and montane tropical areas all over the world; c. 130 spp., of which 6 spp. in Malesia.