Common name: Pale Corydalis, White Corydalis
Pseudofumaria alba (Mill.) Lidén APNI* 
Description: Slender perennial herb with numerous branched, brittle stems to 20 cm high, annual shoots arising from an underground tuber; usually glabrous.
Leaves 5–15 cm long; leaflets ovate to lanceolate, mostly 3–10 mm wide.
Corolla usually 14–17 mm long, white to creamy white with yellow at apex of some petals, often with a yellowish or greenish patch near apex of outer petals.
Capsule 3–9-seeded.
Distribution and occurrence: cultivated, sometimes naturalised near habitations. Native of Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Tas.
Corydalis lutea (L.) DC. was misapplied to Pseudofumaria alba (Mill.) Lidén subsp. alba in G.J. Harden, Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1: 173 (1990). Pseudofumaria was formerly placed in the family Fumariaceae.
Text by G.J. Harden, based on Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1: 173 (1990), as Corydalis lutea (L.) DC. and Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1 Suppl.: 23 (2000); last revised April 2017
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed April 2017)
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. alba |
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