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Cardamine flexuosa With.
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Annual, biennial or perennial herb. Stems up to 20 cm, flexuous, hairy especially below. Leaves imparipinnate; basal few, in a lax rosette, with 3-6 pairs of lateral leaflets and a larger terminal leaflet; stem leaves 4-10, ± sessile with 5 or more pairs of leaflets, all leaflets gland-toothed or ± lobed. Petals 2.5-3 mm, white. Sepals white-margined. Fruit 12-25 × 1 mm, ± erect on upwardly curved pedicels 6-13 mm. Seeds very narrowly winged.
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Cardamine flexuosa With., commonly known as Wavy Bittercress, is an herbaceous annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae).[1]
Description[edit]
This is a small flowering plant growing to a height of no more than 30 cms, usually perennial, with few short, erect stems. The leaves pinnate, mostly at the base, each with about 5 pairs of rounded leaflets. Flowers very small, white, 3 – 4 mm across with 6 stamens. Fruits generally not overtopping the flowers - a feature distinguishing it from Cardamine hirsuta.[2]
Distribution[edit]
British Isles: Common.
Uses[edit]
In Northeast Indian State, Manipur, it is eaten and often use as garnishing Eromba and known as Chaantruk.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^ Webb, D.A., Parnell, J. and Doogue, D. 1996. An Irish Flora. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk. ISBN 0-85221-131-7
- ^ Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F. 1968. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-04656-4
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flexuosa: zigzag, much bent (probably referring to the stem)
The above first records from Myanmar and Thailand are based on Keenan et al. 3918 (E) and Maxwell 90-149 (MO), respectively.
Cardamine flexuosa is one of the most variable species of Brassicaceae, especially in stem direction, plant height, density of indumentum, flower size, degree of zigzagging of the raceme rachis, orientation of fruiting pedicels and, most dramatically, number, shape, size, base (sessile vs. petiolulate), and margin of lateral leaf lobes. Although Schulz (Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 464-473. 1903) recognized 20 infraspecific taxa in C. flexuosa, an examination of the types of most of these reveals that he confused the limits of least four different species, including C. parviflora, C. scutata, and the North American C. pensylvanica Muhlenberg ex Willdenow. Only a small fraction of the vast number of variants of C. flexuosa have been accorded infraspecific ranks, but all of those occur sporadically throughout the range of the species, and the present authors prefer to avoid the recognition of infraspecific taxa that are based on unreliable characters, especially the morphology of lateral leaf lobes.
Although Cardamine occulata was based on Chinese material, it was not mentioned in FRPS, and it represents only a minor variant of C. flexuosa.
Cardamine flexuosa is used medicinally.
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Native of Europe and Asia, widely introduced elsewhere
C. inayatic Schulz is a from of this species with somewhat conical terminal lobes of leaf.
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