Rorippa benghalensis

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Rorippa benghalensis

Description

Annual, pubescent herb, with taproot. Leaves obovate in outline, auriculate, lyrato-pinnatipartite, irregularly serrate-dentate, up to 15 by 3 cm, successively transgrading into smaller undivided bracts; Sepals green, elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long. Petals pale yellow, spathulate, 1-2 mm long, about as long as the sepals. Ovary cylindrical with very short style and flat expanded stigma. Seeds biseriate, dark brown, spheroid, c. 0.5 mm long, minutely foveolate.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Vietnam (Vietnam present), Sumbawa present
India to Vietnam; in Malesia: Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa).

Citation

SCHULZ 1934 – In: Fedde, Rep. 33: 281