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Cardamine africana [family BRASSICACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cardamine africana [family BRASSICACEAE]
Information
Soft herbs up to 30 cm high with erect or decumbent stems from a perennial root, Stems rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or hispid, internodes long. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the petioles 3-9 cm long, channelled, clasping at the base but not auriculate, glabrous or hispidulous; leaflets 3, petiolulate, membranous, crenate or crenate-dentate, each crenation with a mucronulate nerve-ending, margins ciliolate, both surfaces glabrous, or the lower surface strigillose or both surfaces stngillose, 3-5-nerved from near or from the base, 3-5.5 cm long, 2-4 cm broad; lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, acute or acuminate not always opposite each other; terminal leaflet oblong-ovate or narrowly ovate, cordate or broad at the base, acute or acuminate. Racemes few-flowered; rhachis 2-10 cm long. Pedicels in fruit 0-5-1-5 cm long, stout. Sepals 2-3 mm long, 1-1 • 3 mm broad, oblong, rounded, erect, not saccate, thin, green or tinged purple. Petals 3-5-4-5 mm long, 2-2-3 mm
Habitat
Native to Europe but widespread throughout the world. In South Africa recorded apparently only on the Cape Peninsula. Burtt Davy's record of this species is probably based on a misidentification of the next species.
Use
1. Cardamine africana L., Sp. PI. 655 (1753); Sond. in F.C. 1 : 23 (1860); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1 : 126 (1926); Adamson in Fl Cane Penins 422 (1950V Exell in F Z 1, 1 : 189 (1960). Type : Hermann Par.' Bat. 202, t.202(1698)
Range
Widespread in Africa and the Mascarene Islands. The flowers are white or greenish-white. Found in damp, shady places.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cardamine africana [family BRASSICACEAE]
Information
Soft herbs up to 30 cm high with erect or decumbent stems from a perennial root, Stems rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or hispid, internodes long. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the petioles 3-9 cm long, channelled, clasping at the base but not auriculate, glabrous or hispidulous; leaflets 3, petiolulate, membranous, crenate or crenate-dentate, each crenation with a mucronulate nerve-ending, margins ciliolate, both surfaces glabrous, or the lower surface strigillose or both surfaces stngillose, 3-5-nerved from near or from the base, 3-5.5 cm long, 2-4 cm broad; lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, acute or acuminate not always opposite each other; terminal leaflet oblong-ovate or narrowly ovate, cordate or broad at the base, acute or acuminate. Racemes few-flowered; rhachis 2-10 cm long. Pedicels in fruit 0-5-1-5 cm long, stout. Sepals 2-3 mm long, 1-1 • 3 mm broad, oblong, rounded, erect, not saccate, thin, green or tinged purple. Petals 3-5-4-5 mm long, 2-2-3 mm
Habitat
Native to Europe but widespread throughout the world. In South Africa recorded apparently only on the Cape Peninsula. Burtt Davy's record of this species is probably based on a misidentification of the next species.
Use
1. Cardamine africana L., Sp. PI. 655 (1753); Sond. in F.C. 1 : 23 (1860); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1 : 126 (1926); Adamson in Fl Cane Penins 422 (1950V Exell in F Z 1, 1 : 189 (1960). Type : Hermann Par.' Bat. 202, t.202(1698)
Range
Widespread in Africa and the Mascarene Islands. The flowers are white or greenish-white. Found in damp, shady places.
Cardamine africana [family BRASSICACEAE]
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