Cardamine macrophylla Willd.

 
  • Family : BRASSICACEAE
    (Mustard Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : SARSON FAMILY (सरसों फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Brassicaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Cardamine dentariifolia Royle ex Hook.f. & Thomson; Cardamine gmelinii Tausch; Cardamine macrophylla var. diplodonta T.Y.Cheo; Cardamine macrophylla var. polyphylla (D.Don) T.Y.Cheo & R.C.Fang; Cardamine polyphylla D.Don; Cardamine sachalinensis Miyabe & T.Miyake; Cardamine sinomanshurica (Kitag.) Kitag.; Cardamine szeewaldiana Prodan; Cardamine urbaniana O.E.Schulz; Cardamine willdenowii Tausch; Dentaria hirsutuloa Andrz. ex DC.; Dentaria macrophylla (Willd.) Bunge ex Maxim.; Dentaria ochroleuca Gaudin ex DC.; Dentaria sinomanshurica Kitag.; Dentaria wallichii G.Don; Dentaria willdenowii Tausch
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cardamine macrophylla Willd.
  • Common name : Toothwort,Bitter cress
  • Vernacular name :
    • Twelee (Nepali)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Damp shaded situations in subtropical to temperate forests, altitude 2000-3000 m.
  • Comments / notes : A common and variable species so far as height, number and division of leaflets and size of flowers are concerned, but displaying little correlation of characters
  • Key identification features : Erect herb; Flowers white or tinged with violet.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-July
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kinnaur district, Kullu district, Lahaul & Spiti district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Altay, Amur, Bhutan, Buryatiya, China, Chita, East European Russia, India, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, North European Russia, Pakistan, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tibet, Tuva, West Sib
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Altay, Amur, Bhutan, Buryatiya, China, Chita, East European Russia, India, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, North European Russia, Pakistan, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya
  • Literature :
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 75
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 2. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 430
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 61
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cardamine macrophylla. Downloaded on 19 February 2025.

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