Cardamine africana L.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Trail 2, Ndundu Lodge, Vumba

Photo: Bart Wursten
Camp site, Chirinda Forest

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Common names:	African bittercress (English)
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Description:	Slender perennial herb, 40-60 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets up to 4 × 3 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy; apex pointed to rounded; margin crenate-dentate. Flowers in corymbose racemes, white to greenish, c. 6 mm in diameter. Fruit a straight, linear siliqua, 25-45 mm, flattened, tapering gradually. Seeds ellipsoid, flattened, brownish.
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Derivation of specific name:	africana: African
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Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in mountainous areas of Tropical and South Africa. Also in India and Brazil
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Literature:	Exell, A.W. (1960). Brassicaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 189. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 30.

Flora of Mozambique: Cardamine africana
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cardamine africana

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