Cardamine bodinieri (H. Léveillé) Lauener, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 26: 336. 1965; Dentaria bodinieri H. Léveillé, Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 452. 1910. TYPE: China, Guizhou, Kouy-Yang, May 1910, Bodinier s.n. (holotype, E).

            Herbs, perennial. Rhizomes present. Stems ca. 60 cm, erect, simple or branched above, glabrous except for leaves. Basal leaves withered by flowering; cauline leaves 5-8, simple, deeply 3-lobed; petiole 0.5-5 cm, with a broad wing 2-6 mm wide extending along entire length, base amplexicaul; auricles broadly oblong to ovate, to 6 ´ 4 mm; terminal leaf lobe ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-8 ´ 2-4 cm, sparsely hirsute with stout trichomes to 0.4 mm, sessile and base decurrent with lateral lobes, margin serrate-crenate, ciliolate with trichomes less than 0.1 mm, teeth mucronate, apex acute to acuminate; lateral lobes similar to terminal but smaller. Raceme ebracteate, several flowered; fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, 5-10 mm, straight, glabrous. Sepals ovate-oblong, 2-3 ´ ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous, lateral pair subsaccate; petals purple, obovate, ca. 7 ´ 3 mm, not clawed; median filaments pairs 2.5-3 mm, lateral pair 1.5-2 mm; anthers ca. 0.6 mm; ovules 8-12 per ovary. Fruit linear, 0.8-1.2 cm ´ 1-1.2 mm; gynophore ca. 0.5 mm; valves glabrous, smooth; style 0.5-2 mm. Seeds dark brown, oblong, 1.3-1.7 ´ 0.7-0.9 mm, wingless. Flowering May-Jul.

Elevation: ca. 1100 m.

Distribution: China (Guizhou).