Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Drymaria > D. cordata

Description: 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.

Flowering and Fruiting: January to December

Uses: 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.

Cultivation: Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org