Cardamine africana
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Description
Perennial rhizomatous herb with 10-80 cm high, erect or ascending shoots appearing solitary or clustered.
Leaves tripartite (rarely with one additional small pair of leaflets), glabrous or hispidulous above;
Sepals green with hyaline margins, elliptic, 1.4-4.5 mm.
Petals white to pale violet, spathulate, broadly obtuse, at least twice as long as sepals, 3-12 mm long, ± ⅓ as broad.
Stamens 6 with subulate filaments;
Ovary cylindrical with short narrower style and somewhat expanded stigma.
Seeds red or dark brown, broadly elliptic or oblong in outline, 1.5-2.5 by 1-1.5 mm, smooth.
Distribution
Africa present: Gulf of Guinea Is. (São Tomé present), America present, Asia present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Atjeh present, Cape Province present, Caribbean Islands present, Ceram present, Comores present, E. Coast present, Ethiopia present, Fernando Póo present, Lombok present, Madagascar present, Mt Cameroun present, NW. South America present, Papua New Guinea present, Réunion present, South Africa present, Southern America, Sumbawa present, Tapanuli present, W present, tropical montane areas present
Ubiquist in tropical montane areas. In Africa from Ethiopia south to South Africa (Cape Province) and westwards to Mt Cameroun; also in Fernando Póo, São Tomé, Comores, Madagascar and Réunion. In America in many Caribbean Islands, Central America and NW. South America; in Asia in India and Sri Lanka; in Malesia: Sumatra (northern parts: W., E. coast, Tapanuli, Atjeh), Java (W., E.), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa), Ceram, Papua New Guinea.
Citation
HENTY & PRITCHARD 1973: Weeds New Guinea. – In: Div. Bot. Lae, Bot. Bull.: 96
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 93
SCHULZ 1903 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 414
BOERL. 1890 – In: Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 58
RIDLEY 1926 – In: J. Mal. Br. R. As. Soc.: 52
BOLDINGH 1916: Zakfl. Landb. Java: 67
BACKER 1911: School-fl. Java: 56
ZOLL. & MOR.: Syst. Verz.: 35
STEEN. 1972: Mt. Fl. Java: pl. 13/6
BACKER & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 191
DOCTERS VAN LEEUWEN 1933 – In: Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam: 167
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 290
STREI-MANN 1983: Canberra Nat. Bot. Gard.: 100
P.ROYEN 1982 – In: Mt. Fl. New Guinea: 2021
Koord. 1923 – In: Fl. Tjibodas: 80