Cardamine yunnanensis Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 33: 398. 1886. TYPE: China, Yunnan, Ta-long-tan, near Tapin-tze, 1800 m, 26 Jul 1885, J. M. Delavay 1843 (holotype, P!; isotypes, E!, F!, P!, US!).

Cardamine bijiangensis W. T. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 12. 1987. TYPE: China, Yunnan, Bijiang, Kungdung, 2800 m, 9 Jul 1978, Nujiang Expedition 943 (holotype, KUN!; isotype, KUN!).

Cardamine hirsuta var. oxycarpa J. D. Hooker & T. Anderson,

Cardamine heterophylla T. Y. Cheo & R. C. Fang, Bull. Bot. Lab. North-East. Forest. Inst., Harbin 1980(6): 27. 1980; not Host, Syn. P. Austral. 366. 1797; not Lapeyrouse, Hist. Abr. Pl. Pyr. 377. 1813; not Bory, Ann. Sci. Gen. Phys. 3: 6. 1820; not W. J. Hooker, Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 273. 1835; not (Nuttall) Wood, Amer. Bot. & Fl. 38. 1870; not (Forester) O. E. Schulz, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 487. 1903; Cardamine sinica Rashid & H. Ohba, J. Jap. Bot. 68: 182. 1993. TYPE: China, Sichuan, Nanchuan Xian, Daheba, 13 Apr 1938, K. L. Chu 6034 (holotype, NAS!).

Cardamine inayatii O. E. Schulz, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 9: 1069. 1927. TYPE: India, Sikkim, below Chiyabanjan, 2500 m, 11 May 1960, Hara et al. s.n. (holotype, TI!).

Cardamine levicaulis W. T. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 9. 1987. TYPE: China, Sichuan, Luding, Mons Gonggashan, Yanzigou, 2500-3000 m, 25 Jun 1982, Lang Kaiyong, Li Liangqian & Fei Yong 226 (holotype, PE!; isotype, KUN!, PE!).

Cardamine longipedicellata Z. M. Tan & G. H. Chen, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 34: 650. 1996, not Rollins, J. Arnold Arb. 21: 395. 1940. TYPE: China, Sichuan, Shifang, Saiyunhua, 1090 m, 3 Apr 1979, S. Huang 40 (holotype, SZ!).

Cardamine longistyla W. T. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 14. 1987. China, Xizang, Zayü, Ridong, Shiladu, 3600 m, 8 Sep 1982, Qinghai-Xizang Team 10183 (holotype, PE!; isotype, KUN!).

Cardamine muliensis W. T. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 11. 1987. TYPE: China, Sichuan, Muli, Bailianggou, 3300 m, 26 Aug 1983, Qinghai-Xizang Team 13497 (holotype, KUN!).

Cardamine sikkimensis H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 37: 97. 1962. TYPE:

Cardamine weixiensis W. T. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 9. 1987. TYPE: China, Yunnan, Weixi, Lidiping, 3100-3300 m, 21 Jul 1981, Expedition of Hengduanshan 1828 (holotype, PE!; isotype, PE!).

            Herbs, short-lived perennial, rarely annual. Rhizomes slender. Stems (1–)1.5–4.5(–6) dm, often pilose or puberulent, sometimes glabrescent distally, simple or branched from base, angled. Basal leaves petiolate, often withered by flowering, 3–5-foliolate, rarely simple; petiole 1–6(–8) cm; leaf blade or terminal leaflet suborbicular, ovate, or lanceolate, 0.5–3 ´ 0.5–2.5 cm, dentate, crenate, or rarely subsinuate; lateral leaflets absent or 1 or 2 pairs. Middle cauline leaves 3–7-foliolate; petiole (1–)2–7(–8.5) cm, basally auriculate; auricles toothlike, linear, or lanceolate, (0.4–)1–3(–4) ´ 0.2–1(–1.5) mm; terminal leaflet lanceolate, elliptic, oblong, ovate, or suborbicular, (1–)1.3–4.5(–6) ´ (0.4–)0.6–2(–3) cm, sparsely pilose adaxially, often glabrous abaxially, with a petiolule (2–)4–14(–20) mm, base obtuse or cuneate, margin ciliate to ciliolate and dentate, crenate, sinuate, or rarely repand, apex acute or acuminate; lateral leaflets 1–3 pairs, shortly petiolulate to subsessile, similar to terminal one and often oblique at base; uppermost leaves often trifoliolate, rarely simple. Raceme ebracteate; fruiting pedicels ascending or divaricate, 0.5–1.8(–2.3) cm, straight, slender. Sepals oblong or nearly ovate, 2–3 ´ 1–1.5 mm, base not saccate; petals white, obovate, (2.5–)3.5–5(–6) ´ 2–3 mm, not clawed; median filament pairs 2.5–4 mm, lateral pair 2–3 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5–0.8 mm; ovules 8–18 per ovary. Fruit linear, 1.5–2.8(–3) cm ´ 1–1.3 mm; valves smooth, sparsely pilose; style (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.5) mm. Seeds brown, narrowly oblong, 1.3–1.8 ´ 0.7–1 mm, wingless.

Flowering: Mar–Jul.

Habitat: moist shady places, mountain slopes, valleys, grasslands, meadows, thickets, forest openings, damp stream beds.

Elevation: 900–4200 m.

Distribution: Bhutan, China (Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan), India (Sikkim), Nepal.