Drymocallis

Drymocallis
Sticky cinquefoil, Drymocallis glandulosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Subfamily:	Rosoideae
Tribe:	Potentilleae
Subtribe:	Fragariinae
Genus:	Drymocallis Fourr. ex Rydb.
Species
At least 3; see text

Drymocallis is a genus of plants formerly (and sometimes still) included with the typical cinquefoils (Potentilla). It contains three species known or suspected to be protocarnivorous, ^[1] but more cinquefoils might eventually be moved here: ^{[2] [3]}

Taxonomy

The genus Drymocallis was described by Per Axel Rydberg in 1908 with him crediting Jules Pierre Fourreau. ^[4] DNA sequence data suggests they are more closely related to Chamaerhodos and Dasiphora than to species such as Potentilla reptans (creeping cinquefoil) which make up the bulk of Potentilla. ^[2]

According to Plants of the World Online the genus includes 24 species. ^[4]

• Drymocallis arguta (Pursh) Rydb.
• Drymocallis arizonica Rydb.
• Drymocallis ashlandica (Greene) Rydb.
• Drymocallis calycina (Boiss. & Balansa) Soják
• Drymocallis campanulata (C.L.Hitchc.) Ertter
• Drymocallis convallaria (Rydb.) Rydb.
• Drymocallis corsica (Soleir. ex Lehm.) Kurtto
• Drymocallis cuneifolia Rydb.
• Drymocallis damghanensis Naderi & Faghir
• Drymocallis deseretica Ertter
• Drymocallis fissa (Nutt.) Rydb.
• Drymocallis geoides (M.Bieb.) Soják
• Drymocallis glabrata Rydb.
• Drymocallis glandulosa (Lindl.) Rydb.
• Drymocallis halacsyana (Siegfr. ex Degen) Kurtto & Strid
• Drymocallis hansenii (Greene) Rydb.
• Drymocallis inquinans (Turcz.) Soják
• Drymocallis lactea (Greene) Rydb.
• Drymocallis longisepala (Strid) Kurtto & Strid
• Drymocallis malacophylla (Borbás) Kurtto
• Drymocallis micropetala Rydb.
• Drymocallis modocana Ertter
• Drymocallis pseudorupestris (Rydb.) Rydb.
• Drymocallis regisborisii (Stoj.) Soják
• Drymocallis rhomboidea (Rydb.) Rydb.
• Drymocallis rupestris (L.) Soják

References

Citations

1. George G. Spomer (1999). "Evidence of protocarnivorous capabilities in Geranium viscosissimum and Potentilla arguta and other sticky plants". International Journal of Plant Sciences . 160 (1): 98–101. doi:10.1086/314109.
2. Torsten Eriksson; Malin S. Hibbs; Anne D. Yoder; Charles F. Delwiche; Michael J. Donoghue (2003). "The phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the trnL/F region of chloroplast DNA" (PDF). International Journal of Plant Sciences . 164 (2): 197–211. doi:10.1086/346163.
3. "Drymocallis Fourr. ex Rydb". Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture. November 4, 2011. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
4. POWO 2025.

Sources

Web sources

• POWO (2025). "Drymocallis Fourr. ex Rydb". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 24 October 2025.

External links

• Media related to Drymocallis at Wikimedia Commons