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Published In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17(2): 319. 1882. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)

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Cardamine auriculata S. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17 : 319. 1882. TYPE:

Herbs, annual, sparingly hispid near base. Stems 1.5-4 dm, erect to ascending or decumbent, slender, branched. Leaves pinnately compound, with 2 or 3 pairs of leaflets, petiolate, not auriculate; leaflets petiolulate, ovate to ovate-oblong, 1-2 cm, crenate-dentate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, minutely ciliate or not, sometimes a subsidiary leaflet present at lower side of rachis. Racemes ebracteate; fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, 6-10 mm, glabrous. Sepals 2.5-3.5 mm, not saccate; petals white, spatulate, 6-8 mm; ovules - . Fruits linear, 2.5-4 cm × 1.5-2 mm; style 1.5-3 mm, slender. Seeds oblong, ca. 1.5 mm × 1 mm, occasionally winged.