Climber
🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
| Assamese |
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| bodo |
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📚 Overview
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering & Fruiting: January-December
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
| Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Morphology
Prostrate annual herbs. Stem glabrous to glandular-papillate. Branches arising from base, rooting at nodes, slender, elongate. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules lacerate ca. 1-2 mm into long filaments; petioles ca. 2-5 mm long; lamina. ca. 5-25 x 3-20 mm, deltoid-ovate to subreniform, obtuse to cordate at base, acute or obtuse and mucronate at apex, glabrous, 3-7 nerved. Flowers in dichasial cyme, terminal; pedicels ca. 1-8 mm long, finely glandular pubescent; bracts lanceolate ca. 2-5 mm long; Sepals 5, narrowly obovate to elliptic-ovate, ca. 2-4.5 mm long, keeled, 3-nerved, inflexed, glandular papillose on nerves; petals 3-5, 2-fid, white; lobes oblong, obtuse at apex, ca. 1.5-3 mm long, 1-nerved; stamens 2-3, ca. 1.6-2.2 mm long; anthers suborbicular; Ovary globose; styles 2 or 3 fid. Capsules 2-3 valved, ca. 1.5-2.5 mm long. Seeds one, ca. 1-2 mm in diam, cochleate, finely tuberculate.
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
| Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Tender leaves & shoots are eaten as vegetable suitable with small fishes. It is also used as medicine for sinus problem, and in treatment of cuts & wounds of domesticated animal
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Uttar Pradesh; Tropical And Subtropical Asia, Australia
Indian Distribution
Kamrup, Bongaigaon, Barak Valley
Endemic Distribution
Kamrup, Bongaigaon, Barak Valley
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
| Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
A diffused herb with climbing tendency, generally form a dense ground cover, usually on moist &shady places . leaves decussate ovate, sub-orbicular or cordate. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal cymes, white
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Pal, G.D. 2013. Flora of Arunachal Pradesh: Vol. I: 111. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Sharma, B.D., Balakrishnan, N.P. 1993. Flora of India: Vol. II: 533. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
Information Listing > References
- Pal, G.D. 2013. Flora of Arunachal Pradesh: Vol. I: 111. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Sharma, B.D., Balakrishnan, N.P. 1993. Flora of India: Vol. II: 533. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus | Drymaria |
| Species | Drymaria cordata |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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