Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.
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Flowers [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Dowe
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Leaves [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Dowe
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Herbarium specimen. © CSIRO
Family
Willdenow, C.L. von in Schultes, J.A. (1819) Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 5: 406.
Common name
Tropical chickweed
Stem
Plants annual. Stems straggling, sometimes subscandent, usually rooting at lower nodes, 60-90 cm, mostly glabrous, minutely papillose toward inflorescence. Stipules membranous, narrowly triangular, splitting into few whitish setae.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Capsule ovoid, (1.5-)2-3 mm in diam., 3-valved. Seed dark brown, suborbicular, ca. 1.5 mm, regularly densely tuberculate.
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Natural History & Notes
A weed of shady areas.
RFK Code
4180
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