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Drymaria cordata

(L.) Willd. ex Schult. (1819)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: Drymaria

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Glabrous to glandular puberulent annual herbs.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes. stems prostrate and spreading, sometime weakly erect.

Roots: Often rooting at nodes.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or sometimes appearing whorled. Blades reniform to suborbicular, 5–25 mm long, 5–30 mm wide. Apex rounded or occasionally mucronulate. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem. Surfaces glabrous to sparsely puberulent. Margins entire. Petioles 2–15 mm long. Stipules divided to base into linear segments 2mm long, persistent.

Flowers: Flowers few to numerous terminal or axillary cymes, rarely solitary in the leaf axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, distinct, nearly distinct, or connate into a conspicuous tube, lanceolate to ovate, 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous to glandular puberulent, margins scarious. Corolla of 3–5, white, usually 2-cleft; 2–3 mm long, deeply lobed, the lobes linear; notched, cleft, or sometimes fibriate or divided, sometimes sharply differentiated into an expanded part and a basal claw, then often with 2 small outgrowths present at the juncture of the limb and claw. Stamens 2–3, rarely alternating with staminodes; distinct or adnate to petals at base to form a short tube, which may be adnate to the gynophore or sometimes adnate to lower part of calyx, petaloid staminodes sometimes present; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Capsules ovoid; 1.5–2.5 mm; 3 valved. Seeds 1–12; dark reddish brown; cochleate; 1–1.5 mm long; the surface with rows of low tubercles; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = 24; 36

Habitat: Naturalized in shaded; moist sites.

Elevation Range: 10–1,280 m.

Historical Distribution

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Drymaria cordata var. pacifica M.Mizush.

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Molokai Naturalized
Lana'i Naturalized
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • First collected on Kuai'i in 1895
  • in hawaii naturalized in shaded, moist sites 10-1,280 m on Kuai'i, O'ahu, Molokai'i, Maui'i and Hawai'i island

Bibliography

Name Published In: J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 5: 406 (1819)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Drymaria cordata Piihonua; Hilo Forest Reserve, Site 38 OS Ohia-koa dieback. Soil a somewhat poorly drained ash found over an unknown substrate. Primary vegetation: Acacia koa, Metrosideros polymorpha, Psidium cattleianum, Cheirodendron trigynum, Antidesma platyphyllum & Vaccinium calycinum. Preserved_Specimen Adee, K.T. Hawaii BISH 1979-04-19
2 Drymaria cordata Mohihi, along ridge above stream E of campground Metrosideros-Cheirodendron wet forest with riparian vegetation Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 3374 Kauai BISH 1994-07-20
3 Drymaria cordata W.R.T In poorly drained soil. Preserved_Specimen Adee, K.T. Hawaii BISH
4 Drymaria cordata Lanai City Common in yard. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 50612 Lanai BISH 2006-05-10
5 Drymaria cordata Honolulu, 3759 Round Top Dr. with Oxalis corniculata, Axonopus; lawn on forest edge Preserved_Specimen Ray, G. 24 Oahu BISH 1997-08-08
6 Drymaria cordata Ditch Trail. Stream bed Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 17676 Maui BISH 1936-12-19
7 Drymaria cordata ahupuaa of Halepuaa Forest Reserve in the Puna District of Hawaii Preserved_Specimen ESP Field Crew Hawaii BISH 1979-10-05
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