- Scientific Name: Sinalliaria limprichtiana (Pax) X.F.Jin, Y.Y.Zhou & H.W.Zhang
- Ref: Phytotaxa 186:194. 2014
- Synonyms: Cardamine hickinii O.E.Schulz; Cardamine limprichtiana Pax; Orychophragmus limprichtianus (Pax) Al-Shehbaz & G.Yang
- Chinese Common Name: 心叶华葱芥 xīnyè Huá∙cōngjiè, 心叶碎米芥 xīnyè suìmǐ∙jiè, 心叶诸葛菜 xīnyè Zhūgě∙cài
- Family: Brassicaceae
- Genus: Sinalliaria
- Distribution: Grassy areas along streams, moist slopes, roadsides, rocky slopes; 300-1200 m. Anhui, Zhejiang.
- Photo: Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Herbs annual or perennial, (12-)25-45(-80) cm tall. Stems erect, simple at base, often branched above, somewhat flexuous, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose with trichomes to 1.5 mm. Basal leaves not rosulate, simple or with 1-3 lateral lobes on each side; petiole (3-)5-15(-18) cm, flattened at base; blade or terminal leaf lobe cordate to broadly so, (2-)4-8(-10) × (1.5-)2.5-6(-8) cm, glabrous or sparsely to densely subappressed pilose abaxially, glabrous or sparsely pilose adaxially, sometimes ciliate, base cordate or rarely cordate-truncate, margin coarsely crenate with teeth ending in apiculae, apex acute or acuminate; lateral lobes sessile or petiolulate, 0.1-3 × 0.03-2 cm, sometimes absent. Uppermost cauline leaves petiolate, much smaller to much larger than basal ones and up to 18 × 11 cm, base not auriculate, margin coarsely and irregularly dentate, rarely crenate, apex caudate or acuminate. Fruiting pedicels divaricate or recurved, glabrous or pilose, narrower than fruit, (0.5-)1-3(-3.5) cm. Sepals oblong, ascending, 2-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, base slightly saccate. Petals white, broadly obovate or narrowly obcordate, (6-)7-9 × 3-6 mm, apex shallowly emarginate; claw obscurely differentiated, shorter than sepals. Filaments 2.5-3.5 mm; anthers oblong, 1-1.5 mm, minutely apiculate. Ovules 20-35 per ovary. Fruit narrowly linear, stout, terete, (2-)3-6 cm × 1.5-2 mm; valves glabrous or sparsely pilose, strongly torulose, inconspicuously veined; style terete, 1-3 mm; stigma 2-lobed, slightly decurrent. Seeds oblong, 2-3 × 0.8-1.2 mm. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Apr-Jun. (Flora of China)