Cardamine lihengiana Al-Shehbaz, Novon 10: 326. 2000. TYPE: China. Yunnan. Yiliang, Xia Cao Ba, 1900 m, 16 Jun 1982, Li Heng, Chen Yü & Yü Hongyuan 1267 (holotype, KUN!; isotype, KUN!).

            Herbs, perennial, glabrous throughout. Rhizomes slender, without stolons. Stems 3–5 dm, erect, angled, with internodes usually more than 2 cm. Rhizomal leaves and lower cauline simple; petiole 1–4 cm, not auriculate at base; leaf blade reniform or suborbicular, 0.7–2.5 ´ 1–3 cm, palmately veined, base cordate, margin repand-crenate, obscurely to distinctly 5- or 7-angled, apex obtuse, obscurely mucronulate; middle and upper cauline leaves with axillary flowers, simple or rarely 1 or 2 with a lateral, leafletlike lobe, suborbicular or ovate, angled, not crenate, progressively smaller upward. Racemes bracteate throughout, very lax; fruiting pedicels ascending, 1.5–3 cm, slender, straight. Sepals ovate, 1.5–1.8 ´ 0.9–1 mm, apex membranous, base not saccate; petals white, obovate, 3.5–4.5 ´ 1.5–2 mm, not clawed, apex rounded; median filament pairs ca. 2.5 mm, lateral pair ca. 2 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.6 mm; ovules 20–24 per ovary. Fruit linear, 2–3.6 cm ´ ca. 1 mm, sessile; valves glabrous, smooth; style 1–2 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 1.2–1.4 ´ 0.7–0.9 mm, wingless.

Flowering May–Jun.

Elevation: ca. 1900 m.

Distribution: China (Yunnan).