Cardamine pakistanica

Description: — Herbs, perennial, sometimes scapose, sparsely to moderately puberulent. Rhizomes slender, short, without stolons or bulbils. Trichomes straight, minute, 0.01 – 0.05 mm long. Stems 7 – 10 cm long, simple or 1 - branched, erect, slender, minutely puberulent throughout. Basal leaves rosulate, trifoliolate, terminating rhizomes or its branches, sparsely puberulent; petiole 1 – 5 cm long, slender, only slightly expanded at base; leaflets equal or slightly unequal in size, on petiolules 2 – 15 mm long, trifid or 2 - or 3 (– 5) - lobed; lobes oblong or obovate to oblanceolate, 3 – 13 × 1.5 – 5 mm, entire, base cuneate; cauline leaves 1 – 3 or absent, lowermost similar to basal leaves; uppermost 1 or 2 leaves, trisect, with linear to narrowly linearoblanceolate lobes, entire or with 2 short lateral lobes, terminal lobe 1.5 – 3 cm × 1.5 – 2 mm, entire, base attenuate. Raceme ebracteate, 8 – 12 - flowered; rachis slender, strongly flexuous, puberulent; fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, 1.5 – 3.1 cm long, straight or slightly curved upward, slender, sparsely puberulent. Sepals oblong, 3 – 3.5 mm long, ascending, puberulent, margin narrowly membranous; petals white, narrowly oblanceolate, 8 – 10 × 2.5 – 3 mm, attenuate to claw-like base, apex obtuse; filaments erect, slender to base, unappendaged, median pairs 3 – 4 mm long, lateral pair 1.5 – 2 mm long; anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long. Fruit linear, 2.5 – 5.5 cm × 0.7 – 1 mm, straight or slightly curved, glabrous; style 1 – 3 mm long. Mature seeds not examined. Phenology: — The only fruiting specimen (Millinger 3363), with all valves and seeds fallen down, was collected in mid-July while other specimen, in bloom, were gathered in September to early October. This probably means that primary flowering and fruiting time is June-July and in autumn, secondary flowering takes place.