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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

C. depressa Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 6.

Type locality: A. Type: K, "in moist places near the sea at Rendezvous Harbour", J. D. Hooker.

Glab. to glabrate herb up to 3 cm. or more tall; stock often branched above; lvs radical or crowded on arrested branches, somewhat fleshy, up to c. 5 cm. long; lamina up to 2 cm. long, obovate to obovate-spathulate, entire to irregularly pinnatifidly lobed, often sparsely ciliate, narrowed into petiole up to c. 3 cm. long. Fls solitary; pedicels spreading to suberect, rather stout, elongating in fr. to c. 3 cm. Sepals ovate-oblong to oblong, c. 1·5 mm. long, or sts almost = petals; petals narrow- spathulate, clawed, c. 3-4 mm. long. Siliques erect, up to 2.5 cm. × 1·5 mm.; style c. 0·5 mm. long. Seeds c. 20.

DIST.: S., St., Sn., A., C. Coastal to montane moist grassy and gravelly places.

Hooker's var. acaulis, loc. cit., appears to be based on habitat-induced, drawn-out specimens.

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