Cardamine peruviana

Description: — Perennial herbs; rhizomes non-fleshy, with leaf scars of previous seasons. Stems 30 − 70 cm tall, erect or decumbent, simple at base, few branched above, glabrous. Rhizomal and lowermost cauline leaves decompound, 5 − 12 cm long, glabrous; petiole 2 − 5 cm long, basally strongly flattened and 3 − 6 mm wide; lateral leaflets 2 − 4 on each side of rachis, trifoliolate, subequaling or smaller then terminal leaflet, with petiolules 0.4 − 2 cm long; secondary leaflets with petiolules 2 − 5 mm long, broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline, lobes cuneate to oblique at base, blade incised to laciniate, ultimate teeth with a conspicuous terminal callosity to 0.3 mm long; cauline leaves 5 − 7, lowermost much longer than basal leaves, to 18 cm long, with petioles to 8 cm long and lateral leaflets to 6 on each side, gradually decreasing in size upward, glabrous on blade surface, sparsely puberulent subapically on distal margin with minute trichomes 0.05 − 0.25 mm long. Racemes 3 − 10 - flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis straight; lowermost young fruiting pedicels 2.5 − 3 cm long, stout, ascending, straight. Sepals green, oblong, 4 − 5 mm long, caducous, glabrous; petals white, oblong-oblanceolate, 8 − 12 × 3 − 4 mm, apex obtuse; filaments 3.5 − 4.5 mm long; anthers oblong, 1 − 1.2 mm long. Mature fruit and seeds not seen.

Habitat: — humid forests.