Cardamine papuana
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Description
Perennial, rhizomatous, glabrous (rarely pubescent) herb with 15-50 cm high, erect or ascending shoots, appearing solitarily or with 2 or 3 together.
Leaves tripartite or unifoliate (side-lobes reduced);
Sepals green with hyaline margins, oblong, 2.5-4 mm long.
Petals white, broadly spathulate, usually notched, 2 or 3 times longer than sepals, 8-12 mm long, ± half as broad.
Stamens 6, with linear filaments;
Ovary cylindrical with indistinctly demarcated style and somewhat expanded stigma.
Seeds dark to light brown, oblong in outline, 1.7-2 by 1-1.3 mm, smooth.