Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult., Syst. Veg. 5: 406 1819. (Syn: Drymaria cordata var. diandra (Sw.) Griseb.; Drymaria cordata f. indica Miq.; Drymaria extensa Wall.; Drymaria gerontogea F. Müll.; Drymaria retusa Wight & Arn.; Holosteum diandrum Sw.; Holosteum montanum Wight ex Wall.);
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Seychelles, peninsular Malaysia, India, Bonin Isl. (Keetaajima, Nakohdojima, Chichijima, Hahajima), Volcano Isl. (Kita-Iwojima, Iwojima), Java, Mauritius, Madagascar, China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Tibet, Ryukyu Isl., Bhutan, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, S-Japan (Honshu), Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), D.R.Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa (Limpopo, Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal, W-Cape Prov., E-Cape Prov.), Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), Sao Tome, Principe Isl., Togo, Cameroon, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), India (Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu), Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan (Pakistani Punjab), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Philippines (throughout), Laos, Vietnam, Singapore (I) as per Catalogue of Life;
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अभिजालेf Abhiijaalo (Np) (Ref. Flora of Nepal)
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Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult. from Kamrup district (Rural) Assam:
Attached images are Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.
Date :08/11/12
Location: Mirza, [Dist- Kamrup(Rural)]
Family : Caryophyllaceae
Genus & species : Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.
Habitat: Grows wild
Habit :small herb
Flower : small, white in colour
Fruits :not seen


Taking this as Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke as per discussions at SK 2756 16 September 2020



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Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult. from Kamrup district, Assam:
Attached images are Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult..

Date : 06/12/2012
Location: Kamrup district, Assam
Family : Caryophyllaceae
Genus & species : Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.
Vern name : Laijabori (Assamese)
Habitat: Grows wild on road side
Habit : Herb
Flower : Small, white in colour

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Caryophyllaceae Week: For id from Gori valley:
This Caryophyllacean, quite common along the roadsides was shot during Gori valley Trip in October 2012…id please..


looking at stipule-like structures at nodes I thought I had nailed Polycarpon, but deeply bifid petals are baffling.


Perhaps Drymaria cordata would be the answer.


I also think this can be Drymaria sp.


yes it is Drymaria cordata


Taking this as Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke as per discussions at SK 2756 16 September 2020



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Drymaria cordata- 21022014- PKA-Feb48 : Attachments (5). 1 post by 1 author.
Seen this Tropical Chickweed herb at Chikmagalur (Karnataka).
Bot. name: Drymaria cordata (Family: Caryophyllaceae).
(http://www.flowersofindia.TropicalChickweed.html)


Plant of Central Java 3 : Attachments (1). 6 posts by 4 authors.
We would like to know the name of the following creeping herbs. Could you help us please. Thank you.

Looks like young plants of Stellaria media.


How about Drymaria cordata?


I think … is right, leaves appear cordate in most leaves.


supporting …



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ANSEPT46 Arenaria serpyllifolia : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4).
Identified by …
Chikamagalur-Kemmangudi Road
13th September 2014


Please reconsider the ID of this species.
Leaves in the fourth picture (DSC_0430) clearly indicate that it IS DRYMARIA CORDATA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE).
The post may please be shifted to Drymaria page.


Thank you for the correction, …




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Climbing herb for Id from Himachal- RS110516-1 : 7 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)
I am unable to identify this plant species. You are requested to help in identification.
It is a climbing herb. Flowers white, very small. Alt. 900m asl

I hope Drymaria cordata.


I too think that this is Drymaria cordata‘Climbing herb’ is misleading.


never say never but how does a short weed like a chickweed hang?


It might be growing either in an edge or on a tree trunk (I have seen this growing at bifurcations at lower portion of tree trunks) and rocks.


Thanks … that was my scenario in my head…  but day dreams need data to prove it… so had to ask. thanks … for confirming.
so given circumstances a short stemmed weed can grow longer stemmed.



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Caryophyllaceae Week: :Stellaria media from Mizoram -PKA15: Bot. name: Stellaria media
Family: Caryophyllaceae

Date/Time: 8th Nov./ 10:00AM
Location: near a river bed at the outskirts of Aizawl, Mizoram
Habitat: Wild
Plant habit: Herb
Height: Approx. 15 to 20cm.
leaves opposite, smooth, short petiole
Flowers tiny, hardly 5 to 6mm, white, petals 5 nos (“V” shaped), sepals longer than petals.


Pictures very beautiful … but to me they look different and not Stellaria media…perhaps a Drymaria species..


Yes that is what I was also to say. Please focus the leaf base to see presence or absence of stipules. Looks Drymaria cordata.


I agree with both …  I do not know the real diagnosis… … has said it above.
But its not chickweed as I know it…the leaves are too big compared to the flowers…. and the shape is different too..


Taking this as Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke as per discussions at SK 2756 16 September 2020 



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Drymaria diandra Blume . : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7)
Sharing some pictures of Drymaria diandra Blume. syn. Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Blume) Duke ??? shot on the way to Nagarkot Nepa, at 5000 ft on 13 August 2016.

Pl. check the following as both species (Drymaria diandra & Drymaria cordata) as below appears quite close:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/drymaria/interesting/
We have only Drymaria cordata so far in efi.


It is matching.


Thanks, …, Matching with which species ?


I guess D. diandra


I feel otherwise.


Taking this as Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke as per discussions at SK 2756 16 September 2020



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Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. ?? : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7)
Location: Soureni, Mirik, India
Date: 18 May 2017
Altitude: 4000 ft. 

I also think it matches with images at Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.


Taking this as Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke as per discussions at SK 2756 16 September 2020


Please look into the mail and see if it is  fit for inclusion in the FoI.


Have a look at the attached parts of this paper comparing Drymaria cordata and Drymaria cordata ssp. diandra.
Preliminary Revision of the Genus DrymariaAuthor(s): James A. DukeSource: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Sep., 1961, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep., 1961), pp. 173-268
Looking at your pictures, or the pictures of Drymaria cordata on FOI, who can distinguish between the two? The author says
“Almost all material from continental Asia belongs to the subspecies diandra (maintained as a species by Mizushima), a subspecies completely lacking in America (excl. Hawaii)”
however, Drymaria cordata is said to be pantropical.
Attachments (2)- Drymaria.pdf and diandra.png


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SK 2756 16 September 2020 : 14 posts by 3 authors. 7 images- 6 to 7 mb each.
Location: Khadka Gaun, Kathmandu,  Nepal  
Date: 10 September 2020
Elevation: 1500m.
Habit : Wild
Drymaria diandra Blume ??

Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke ….is the accepted name
Syn.. name..as suggested by you.


Are both subsp. found in Nepal ?
We have to find keys between the two, before any decision.
eflora of Nepal link is not opening right now. Pl. see if there are keys in Flora of China or elsewhere.
I am unable to find differences between the two on the net.

There seems to be a lot of confusion w.r.t. Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. & Drymaria diandra Blume
I could not find keys or difference between the two on the net, despite vigorous search.
Flora of Peninsular India (as per book link) and An Excursion Flora of Central Tamilnadu, India – Page 24, only mention Drymaria diandra Blume.
Flora Malesiana also mentions only Drymaria diandra Blume.
Flora of China gives Drymaria cordata (Linnaeus) Willdenow ex Schultes with D. diandra Blume as a syn.
Checklist of Nepal mentions both.
The Plant List Ver.1.1 is based on WCSP (in review)- so less reliable, which is being followed by POWO also.
Catalogue of Life gives distribution of Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Bl.) J. A. Duke in Seychelles, peninsular Malaysia, India, Bonin Isl. (Keetaajima, Nakohdojima, Chichijima, Hahajima), Volcano Isl. (Kita-Iwojima, Iwojima), Java, Mauritius, Madagascar, China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Tibet, Ryukyu Isl., Bhutan, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, S-Japan (Honshu), Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), D.R.Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa (Limpopo, Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal, W-Cape Prov., E-Cape Prov.), Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), Sao Tome, Principe Isl., Togo, Cameroon, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), India (Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu), Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan (Pakistani Punjab), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Philippines (throughout), Laos, Vietnam, Singapore (I)
Catalogue of Life does not gives distribution of Drymaria cordata subsp. cordata in our area.


Enclosing some keys re: Drymaria published in Nepal.
4 book images.



Updated checklist  of  Drymaria for Nepal !
2 images.


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232 ID wild plant: 13 images.

Please ID wild plant,
Location: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671
Altitude: 1400fsl
Flower date: 22.12.2021, 10.25am
Habitat: wild moisture
Plant habit: creeping, branches, slender weak fleshy stem 02mm diameter, annual
Height: 01 feet
Leaves: opposite, heart shaped, apex, size:03×2cm
Flower: racemose, 10 petals, diameter:02.5mm, white, non fragrant
Fruit: capsule ovoid green into brown, size:02.5×1.5mm
Seed: black up to 08 nos., micro granular
Camera: mobile Samsung Galaxy A21s


Drymaria diandra Blume


Yes, it is Drymaria diandra dear …, thank you very much for ID my plant,


Yes, appears close to images at Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra


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Identification help 7: 4 high res. images.
is the attached sample Boervia diffusa?

Habitat: Terrestrial
Habit: Prostrate herb,
flowers in bunches. Fruits in bunches, sticky.
Place: Karimganj
Date: 18.4.23
Elevation: 19m avg


Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult. !


Yes, as per images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2012/11/22/drymaria-cordata-subsp-diandra/



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