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Published In: Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27(2): 293. 1854. (Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou)

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Cardamine armoracioides Turczaninow, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 27(2, 4): 293. 1854 (1855). TYPE: Venezuela, New Grenada, Linden 1416 (holotype, KW?; isotypes, BM!, G!, K!, P!).

Cardamine lanceolaris Linden & Plancheon, Trois. Voy. Linden, Bot., Pl. Columb. 1: 12. 1863. TYPE: Same as that of C. armoracioides but holotype at P!.

Herbs, perennial, with woody base, sometimes annual. Rhizomes absent. Stems 20-50 cm, erect or decumbent, simple or branched above, glabrous. Cauline leaves (lower and middle ones) 4-22 cm, simple or rarely with a tiny lateral leaflet; petiole (1.5-)3-7 cm; leaf blade (3-)4.5-15 ´ (1.5-)2-5.5 cm, lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with trichomes to 0.5 mm, base cuneate, margin ciliolate with trichomes to 0.2 mm, serrate, teeth mucronate, apex long acuminate or rarely acute; uppermost leaves smaller, reduced into bracts. Racemes bracteate at least along proximal half; bracts simple, linear to linear-oblanceolate, petiolate, reduced in size upward; fruiting pedicels 1-2 cm, divaricate to ascending, stout, straight. Sepals oblong, 2.5-3.5 ´ 1-1.5 mm, not saccate; petals white, spatulate to oblanceolate, 4.5-6 ´ 1.5-2.5 mm; filaments 3-4 mm; anthers oblong, 0.7-0.9 mm; ovules 10-14 per ovary. Fruits 3-5.5 cm ´ 1.5-2 mm; style 1-3 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 2-2.7 ´ 0.9-1 mm.