Caryophyllaceae
Drymaria

Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.

First published in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 5: 406 (1819)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to S. Tropical America, Tropical & S. Africa. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food.

Descriptions

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
celedonia, celidonia, encaje, golondrina, hoja de cáncer, peledillo, poleo macho
[UNAL]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 3100 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
Preocupación Menor
[CPLC]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Amazonia, Andean, Caribbean, Orinoquia, Pacific. Elevation range: 0–3100 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Amazonas, Antioquia, Bogotá DC, Boyacá, Casanare, Cauca, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca.
Habit
Herb.
Conservation
National Red List of Colombia (2021): Potential LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, native grassland, wetlands (inland), artificial - terrestrial.
Vernacular
Golondrina
[UPFC]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Distribution
Native from Colombia.
Ecology
Alt. 0 - 2100 m.
[UPB]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Caryophyllaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961

Morphology General Habit
Tender herb with stems straggling, procumbent or ascending, branching dichotomously, often rooting at the lower nodes, quadrangular, glabrous or papillose (especially above); leaves rather widely spaced.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves on glabrous petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina 1–3·5 × 0·6–3·0 cm., ovate to very broadly ovate, apex acute or subacute and shortly apiculate or occasionally rounded or obtuse, cordate, truncate or abruptly cuneate at the base, 3–7-nerved at the base, glabrous; stipules c. 1 mm. long, interpetiolar, deeply fringed or composed of several subulate segments.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers in axillary or terminal, rather loose dichotomous cymes 2–25 cm. long, peduncles slender and often elongate; bracts 1–4 mm. long, narrowly lancolate, membranous; pedicels 1·5–5 (12) mm. long, filiform, glabrous or papillose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals green with whitish margins, narrowly lanceolate, acute, keel viscid-papillose, with an additional nerve on each side of the midrib.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals white, deeply bilobed, somewhat shorter than the sepals, sometimes absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 5 or reduced to 3; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anthers c. 0·5 × 0·4 mm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, usually 3-ovulate; style c. 0·25 mm. long with 3 spreading stigmatic arms.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule c. 2 × 1·5 mm. ellipsoid.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1–3, c. 1 × 0·75 mm., somewhat flattened-reniform; testa brown, minutely and bluntly tubercled.
[FZ]

Uses

Use Animal Food
Used as animal food.
Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
Use Gene Sources
Used as gene sources.
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Materials
Used as material.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
Use Social
Social uses.
[UPFC]

Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016, Instituto Humboldt 2014).
[UPB]

Common Names

Spanish
Golondrina.

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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    • Flora Zambesiaca
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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