Cardamine engleriana O. E. Schulz, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 407. 1903. TYPE:

Cardamine griffithii J. D. Hooker & Thomson var. grandifolia T. Y. Cheo & R. C. Fang, Bull. Bot. Lab. North-East. Forest. Inst., Harbin 1980(6): 25. 1980. TYPE: China, Hubei, Xingshan Xian, 1,600 m, 27 May 1957, Y. Liu 529 (holotype, NAS).

            Herbs, perennial, sparsely to densely pilose, often glabrescent above, rarely glabrous throughout. Rhizomes slender, with 1 or few filiform stolons. Stems 10–24(–30) cm, erect, simple, terete, crisped pilose at base. Basal leaves not rosulate, often withered by anthesis; petiole 0.5–2 cm; terminal leaflet reniform or suborbicular, 0.5–1.5 ´ 0.7–1.7 cm, base cordate, margin shallowly crenate or repand; lateral leaflets 2, much smaller than terminal ones, sometimes absent and leaf simple; middle and upper cauline leaves trifoliolate, sessile, to 10 cm; terminal leaflet reniform, suborbicular, or broadly ovate, 1.5–6(–7) ´ 1.2–4(–5) cm, with a petiolule 0.3–2.5(–5.2) cm, base cordate, rounded, or cuneate, glabrous, ciliate, or trichomes forming small tufts at teeth, margin crenate, repand, or obscurely to distinctly 2–6-toothed on each side, apex obtuse or acute; lateral leaflets 2, auriclelike, attached at or just above node, often giving appearance of amplexicaul leaf base, suborbicular, ovate, obovate, or reniform, 3–16(–25) ´ 2–13(–17) mm, much smaller than terminal leaflet, margin entire, 1- or 2-toothed, or repand. Racemes ebracteate, 3–10-flowered; fruiting pedicels 0.5–1.7 cm, divaricate or ascending, slender. Sepals ovate, 2.5–3 ´ 1–1.5 mm, lateral pair subsaccate; petals white, obovate, 6–8 ´ 2–3 mm, apex rounded; median filament pairs 3–4.5 mm; lateral pair 1.5–3 mm; anther oblong, 0.7–1 mm; ovules 8–16 per ovary. Fruit linear, slightly flattened, 1.5–2.5 cm ´ 1–1.2 mm; valves smooth, glabrous; style 1–2 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 1.5–1.8 ´ 0.8–1 mm, wingless.

Flowering: Apr-Jul.

Habitat: shady slopes, woodlands, moist places in ravines.

Elevation: 800–2900 m.

Distribution: China (Anhui, Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan).