Cardamine subcarnosa (Hook.f.) Allan

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Name scientific

Cardamine subcarnosa (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 184 (1961)

Preferred name

Cardamine subcarnosa (Hook.f.) Allan

Taxonomy reference

Heenan, P.B. 2017: A taxonomic revision of Cardamine L. (Brassicaceae) in New Zealand. Phytotaxa 330(1): 001–154.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Heenan, P.B. (2017)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Allan

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Allan

Publication place

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Year published

1961

Publication page

184

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cardamine hirsuta var. subcarnosa Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Cardamine subcarnosa

Etymology

The specific epithet subcarnosa(Latin: sub a little; carnosa fleshy) probably refers to the leaves.

Heenan, P.B. 2017: A taxonomic revision of Cardamine L. (Brassicaceae) in New Zealand. Phytotaxa 330(1): 001–154.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Brassicales

Family

Cruciferae

Genus

Cardamine

Species

subcarnosa

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Cardamine subcarnosa (Hook.f.) Allan

Description

Rather fleshy perennial herb with stout stock branched above; petioles dilating and sheathing at base. Fls white, pink or purplish; sepals oblong, c. 2 mm. long; petals narrow obovate-oblong to spathulate, c. 4·5 mm. long, hardly clawed. Related to

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Cardamine subcarnosa (Hook.f.) Allan

Description

(2) Leafy herb with ascending stems and more open habit than (1). Leaflets larger (up to 2 cm long), thin, not overlapping except the uppermost pair and the terminal. Infl. elongating at fruiting, (2)-5-10-(15) cm tall. Siliques erecto-patent to spreading, c. 1 mm wide; seeds oblong, c. 1 mm long.