2966.000 Cardamine L.

Description of the genus

Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves pinnate (in ours), with basal leaves in a rosette. Inner sepals slightly saccate. Flowers white (in ours) in an ebracteate raceme. Stamens 4-6. Fruit a flattened siliqua, dehiscing explosively, the inconspicuously veined valves coiling spirally from the base. Seeds in 1 series.

Worldwide: 200 species in temperate zones with some on tropical mountains

Rwanda: 0 taxa.

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Flora of Burundi: Cardamine
Flora of Mozambique: Cardamine
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cardamine

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cardamine
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cardamine
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cardamine
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iNaturalist: Cardamine
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cardamine
JSTOR Plant Science: Cardamine
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cardamine
Plants of the World Online: Cardamine
Tropicos: Cardamine
Wikipedia: Cardamine

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