• Family : BRASSICACEAE
  (Mustard Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SARSON FAMILY (सरसों फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BRASSICACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cardamine africana L.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Degraded forest areas and plantations at high ranges
• Key identification features : Small perennial herb
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : KFP 4792, KFP 9635
• Collection Locality : Bababudan Hills (Chikamagalur)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Pudukkottai district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Temperate and Subtropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cardamine africana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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