Rorippa micrantha
Content
Description
Annual herb with taproot.
Sepals light to yellowish green, elliptic, 1.5-2.5 mm long.
Petals pale yellow, sometimes with a violet tinge, spathulate, 2-3 mm long, usually longer than the sepals.
Ovary ellipsoid to cylindrical, with very short style and flat expanded stigma.
Seeds red-brown, finely orbicular to broadly elliptic in outline, 0.5-0.8 by 0.4-0.8 mm, finely reticulate-foveolate.
Distribution
Africa present: Egypt (Egypt present); Zaire (Zaire present), Asia-Tropical: India present, Besuki present, E. Java present, Madagascar present, Pasuruan present, South Africa present
India, widespread in Africa from Egypt to Zaire and South Africa, also in Madagascar; in Malesia: collected a few times in E. Java (Pasuruan, Besuki, etc.).