Drymaria
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Description
Annual or perennial, glabrous or pubescent herbs.
Leaves opposite, stipulate, glabrous to villose or glandular;
Inflorescence a dichasial cyme, rarely an axillary cluster or flowers solitary.
Flowers hypogynous or subperigynous.
Sepals (4 or) 5, free, with scarious margins.
Petals (3-)5, white, usually bifid, rarely wanting.
Stamens 2-5, often some of them reduced to staminodes, filaments ± flattened, anthers versatile.
Ovary shortly stip-itate, styles 3, rarely 2 or 4, ± united in lower part;
Capsule spherical, dehiscing by 3 valves.
Seeds usually tuberculate or verrucose.
Distribution
Pantropical present, neotropic present
About 50 species, mostly neotropic, one species (D. cordata) pantropical.