Cardamine bilobata Kirk

Perennial herb, single rosette or multiple rosettes on short lateral branches, stem and branches up to 3.5 mm diam. Leaves up to 115 mm long, simple, pinnatifid or pinnatisect; lamina 4.3–34.0 × 2.5–13.5 mm, red-brown to brown, occasionally green, glabrous, glabrate or sparsely hairy, glossy, coriaceous, ovate, obovate or oblong; apex obtuse, the hydathode distinct or indistinct; base cuneate, occasionally ± obtuse or attenuate; margin entire or sometimes with 2–4 irregular basal lobes or pinnae; margin and adaxial surface occasionally with hairs up to c. 0.4 mm long; petioles up to 95 mm long, plano-convex, glabrous. Cauline leaves absent. Inflorescences racemose or flowers in loose whorls, often branched, 4–20-flowered; up to 150 mm high, up to 1.2 mm diam. at base, upright, glabrous, green, red-brown to brown. Pedicels up to 30 mm long, c. 0.6 mm diam., stout, glabrous. Sepals 2.3–3.1 × 1.3–1.8 mm, oblong to oval, ± saccate, green, green-brown to red-brown, glabrous, margin white and membranous, apex obtuse, base truncate. Petals 7.0–10.5 × 2.7–5.5 mm, white, limb obovate; apex obtuse; base attenuate, tapering to a 1.0–2.0 mm long claw. Stamens 6, linear along their length, 0.15–0.3 mm wide; median filaments 4, 3.3–5.5 mm long, lateral filaments 2, 2.2–4.8 mm long; anthers 0.6–1.3 mm long, maroon or yellow and flushed maroon, held below or at a similar height to the stigma. Ovary 2.3–6.0 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm diam., terete, green, glabrous; ovules 24–34; style 1.0–1.8 mm long, terete, compressed slightly; stigma 0.5–0.7 mm diam. Siliques 10.0–29.0 × 1.2–1.7 mm, upright, glabrous, valves brown or green-brown at maturity, style 1.7–3.5 mm long, replum 0.3–0.4 mm wide. Seeds 1.0–1.3 mm long, 0.9–1.0 mm wide, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, orbicular to oblong, henna; wing absent.

Cardamine bilobata grows in shallow limestone soils at Awahokomo.

Flowering September–December; Fruiting September–December.