Diverse-leaf Yellowcress (Marshes, swamp and Riverside vegetation of Khandwa district)

Diverse-leaf Yellowcress

Rorippa indica

Description ⁴

Annual or biennial herb, 50-60 (-75) cm tall, sparsely hairy to glabrous (in our area), often much branched above. Leaves similar to the above species but sinuate and toothed, pinnatifid, lyrate to almost entire; upper ones often acute or acuminate with an elongated apex. Racemes elongated, 25-35-flowered, up to 15 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 2.5 mm across, yellow; pedicels up to 5 mm long in fruit, ascending or subspreading. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long. Petals usually about as long as the sepals, sometimes reduced or suppressed. Stamens c. 1.5:2 mm long. Siliquae usually 10-15 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, slender but often slightly up-curved, blunt apexed with c. 1 mm long style and capitate stigma; seeds subbiseriate (or biseriate), minute, c. 0.5 mm long, usually about 100 (or more) in each fruit.

Distribution ⁵

Distribution: Pakistan, Himalaya, India, Indonesia and Africa.

General habitat ⁶

Marshy areas

Local name ⁷

Khubkalan

Reported flowering and fruting ⁷

Dec-July

Sources and Credits

(c) 石川 Shihchuan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/epingchris/4688923722/
(c) filibot.web, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/filibot/8101199667/
(c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rorippa_indica_(8384525636).jpg
(c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4965140
(c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4965141
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26046104
(c) Chandan Pandey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

Range Map

iNat Map

‹ › ×