Flora of Caprivi: Cultivated plants
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2966.000 Cardamine
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 Caprivi: 3 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| africana L. | Description, Image |
| hirsuta L. | |
| trichocarpa Hochst. ex A.Rich. |
Other sources of information about Cardamine:
Our websites:
Flora of Mozambique: CardamineFlora of Zimbabwe: Cardamine
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CardamineBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cardamine
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cardamine
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cardamine
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
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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