Cardamine fragariifolia O. E. Schulz, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 446. 1903. TYPE: China, Hupeh, A. Henry 5803 (holotype, B; isotype, GH!).

Cardamine scoriarum W. W. Smith; Cochlearia scoriarum (W. W. Smith) Handel-Mazzetti. TYPE: China, Yunnan, flank of volcanic mountain NW of Lengyueh?, 25°70¢N, 7000 ft, Jun 1912, G. Forrest 8201 (holotype, B!).

Cardamine smithiana Biswas. TYPE: Donga La, 9500 feet, 25 Jul 1933, F. Ludlow & G. Sherriff 324 (holotype, BM!).

Cochlearia alatipes Handel-Mazzetti; Hilliella alatipes (Handel-Mazzetti) Y. H. Zhang & H. W. Li; Yinshania alatipes (Handel-Mazzetti) Y. Z. Zhao. TYPE: China, Hunan, in monte Yünschan, near Wukang. ca. 1000 m, 12 Jun 1918, H. F. Handel-Mazzetti 12,098 (holotype, WU!; isotypes, E!, W!, WU!).

            Herbs, perennial. Rhizomes 3–8 mm in diam. Stems (3.5–)5–10(–13) dm, erect, simple or branched above, glabrous or rarely puberulent. Basal leaves withered by flowering; cauline leaves (5–)7–10(–15), petiolate, trifolioate, rarely lowermost with 4 or 5 leaflets, often simple below raceme; petiole 1–6(–10) cm, not auriculate at base, wingless or wing rarely to 1 mm wide; petiolules 1–6(–11) mm; leaflets subequal or terminal larger, ovate or lanceolate, rarely elliptic or subrhomboid, (1.5–)3–8(–12) ´ (1–)2–3(–5) cm, glabrous or with appressed, antrorse, simple trichomes 0.1–0.7 mm, base cuneate or obtuse, that of lateral leaflets often oblique, margin serrate or crenate, rarely lobed or subentire, ciliate with trichomes more than 0.1 mm, teeth mucronate, apex acute, acuminate, or acuminate-caudate. Raceme ebracteate, several flowered; fruiting pedicels divaricate, 5–9(–13) mm, slender, straight, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Sepals oblong, 2.5–3.5(–4) ´ 1.5–2 mm, erect or ascending, not saccate, glabrous; petals purple, lavender, pink, or rarely white, obovate or obovate-oblong, (6–)7–9(–10) ´ (2.5–)3–4 mm, rounded at apex; claw 1.5–2(–3) mm; median filament pairs 4–5 mm, lateral pair 3–4 mm; anthers (0.6–)0.7–1 mm. Fruit (young) glabrous; style slender, ca. 1 mm; stigma entire. Seeds not seen.

Flowering: May-Jul.

Habitat: volcanic mountain slopes, shaded streamsides, wet forests, rocky places, moist grasslands.

Elevation: 1000–3000 m.

Bhutan, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan), India, Myanmar.