- Family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(Pink Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BUGYALE FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Caryophyllaceae
- Synonym(s) : Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Blume) J.A.Duke; Drymaria cordata sensu Edgew. & Hook.f. (FBI)
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Drymaria diandra Blume
- Common name : Pipili
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Introduced; Gregarious weed of all areas; The leaf juice is applied in skin diseases; Leaves are edible as green vegetable.
- Key identification features : Prostrate annual Herb, 20-150 cm high; Leaves deltoid-ovate; Flowers light green to white; Capsules ovoid.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao; CS Saldanha, S.R. Ramesh, Syed Maqsood Ahamed; C. Townsend, T.P. Rama Murthy
- Collection Date : 04-10-1970, 17-04-1978, 24-01-1973
- Collection Nos : R.R. Rao; KFP 796; 133
- Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA); Charmudi Ghats, Dakshina Kannada district (KA); Belithala, Nilgiris
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Araku Valley (Vishakapatnam district)
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Bengaluru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Rayagada district, Sundergarh district, Kalhandi district, Angul district, Keonjhar district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Shimla district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang district, West Kameng district, East Kameng district, Lohit district, Siang district, Subansiri district, Tirap district
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- P.K . Hajra ., D.M. Verma and G.S. Giri (1996). Materials For The Flora Of Arunachal Pradesh , Vol (1), Pg : 201
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 90-91
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Drymaria diandra. Downloaded on 1 April 2025.
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