Cardamine altigena

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Cardamine altigena

Description

Perennial, slender herb with 20-50 cm long stems, ascending to largely prostrate and running with rooting nodes from which more stems may arise. Leaves glabrous or sparsely ciliate, imparipinnate with 1-3 pairs of lateral leaflets (rarely leaflets lacking); Sepals green to reddish white with hyaline margins, oblong, 1.8-2.7 mm long. Petals white, spathulate, obtuse, 3.5-6 mm long, ± ⅓ as broad. Stamens 6, tetradynamous, with subulate filaments; Ovary cylindrical with indistinct style and flat stigma. Seeds red-brown, oblong in outline, 1.4-1.7 by c. 1.1 mm, smooth.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea (throughout), widespread in high mountain areas.

Citation

MERR. & PERRY 1943 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 207
P.ROYEN 1982: p. 2021. – In: Mt. Fl. New Guinea: f. 616, pl. 154
HOOGLAND 1958: Blumea: 227