Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Eutrema minutissimum (O.E.Schulz) D.A.German & Al-Shehbaz |
Bibliography | Phytotaxa 338: 217 (2018) |
Native Range | Qinghai to Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 3600-5200m |
Description | leaves petiolate, broadly ovate or oblong, 4-10mm long, upwards smaller, sometimes dentate, obtuse, flowers in compact raceme, sepals oblong, petals obovate, 2-4mm long |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Cochlearia himalaica Hook.f. & Thomson Cochlearia minutissima O.E.Schulz Eutrema hookeri Al-Shehbaz & Warwick Taphrospermum himalaicum (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz & al. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, WHM West Himalaya) |