Cardamine komarovii Nakai

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 12-75 cm tall. Rhizomes short, stout. Stems erect, simple at base, branched above, finely striate, pubescent or glabrescent. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 2-5 cm, winged at base, glabrous or pilose; leaf blade broadly cordate or suborbicular, 1.5-4 × 1.5-3.5 cm, margin coarsely dentate, the teeth submucronate. Cauline leaves 3-8, simple; petiole winged, (0.5-)1-4 cm, auriculate-amplexicaul at base; auricles oblong or lanceolate, 2-10 × 0.5-4 mm, entire; leaf blade cordate or broadly ovate, (2-)3-7.5(-9) × (1.2-)2.5-6 cm, pilose at least along veins and margins, rarely glabrous, base cordate, margin coarsely and irregularly toothed, sometimes incised on distal leaves, apex acuminate or obtuse. Racemes ebracteate. Fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, 1-2.5 cm, slender, pilose or glabrous. Sepals oblong, 2.5-3 × 1.2-1.6 mm, glabrous or pilose, base not saccate. Petals white, broadly obovate, 3-4 × ca. 1.5 mm, apex rounded. Filaments 2-3 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. Ovules 6-12 per ovary. Fruit linear, 2-4 cm × ca. 1 mm; gynophore stout, 0.2-0.7 mm; valves glabrous or sparsely pilose, not torulose, acuminate; style 2-3 mm, slender. Seeds brown, oblong, 1.5-2 × 1-2 mm. Fr. Jun.
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A cabbage family herb. It grows between 12-75 cm tall.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system rhizome
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows near stream sides, moist areas between 700–1000 m altitude in northern China.
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Streamsides and moist areas, usually in shady places, at elevations of 700-1000 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Edible leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Cardamine komarovii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280417-1
WFO ID wfo-0000587062
COL ID R4G7
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Synonyms

Alliaria auriculata Cardamine komarovii Arabis cebennensis var. coreana Cardamine komarovii f. macrophylla