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|accepted_name=Dichondra
|accepted_authority=J. R. Forster & G. Forster
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Char. Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=2, 39, plate 20. 1776
|year=1776
}}
|common_names=Ponyfoot
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Dichondra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dichondra]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek dis, double, and chondros, grain, alluding to each flower producing two 1-seeded capsules in D. repens, the type species
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems procumbent to prostrate or trailing, usually rooting at nodes, sometimes mat-forming, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; blade ± cordate-orbiculate to ± reniform, 3–51 mm, to 62 mm wide, surfaces glabrate, glabrous, or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers usually solitary, rarely paired. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 1–4(–5.2) mm, basally connate; corolla usually cream, greenish, greenish yellow, or white, rarely purplish or reddish, campanulate to funnelform, 1.5–5 mm, limb 5-lobed; styles 2, insertion on ovary ± basal; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular or utricular, subglobose to ± compressed and/or ± incised, 2-lobed, indehiscent, pericarp fragile, shattering irregularly, or dehiscence irregularly valvate. <b>Seeds</b> 1 or 2(–4), obovoid, pyriform, or subspheric, glabrous, smooth. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia;introduced also in Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (8 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>This treatment is adapted from the revision by B. C. Tharp and M. C. Johnston (1961).</p>
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits slightly notched to weakly 2-lobed.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas purplish to reddish; abaxial leaf surfaces glabrate.
|[[Dichondra occidentalis|Dichondra occidentalis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas cream; abaxial leaf surfaces sericeous.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces: abaxial and adaxial densely sericeous; pedicels 4–6 mm.
|[[Dichondra argentea|Dichondra argentea]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces: abaxial moderately sericeous, adaxial sparsely sericeous to glabrate; pedicels 5–13(–26) mm.
|[[Dichondra brachypoda|Dichondra brachypoda]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits notably 2-lobed.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade surfaces: abaxial densely sericeous, hairs silvery gray, adaxial sparsely sericeous to glabrate, hairs green; fruit lobes separating, each valvately dehiscent.
|[[Dichondra sericea|Dichondra sericea]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade surfaces: abaxial densely to sparsely sericeous, adaxial sparsely sericeous, hairs sometimes patent, or glabrous; fruit lobes separating, each indehiscent (pericarp fragile, shattering irregularly).
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Pedicels ± straight, seldom notably recurved near tips; sepals longer than fruits.
|[[Dichondra carolinensis|Dichondra carolinensis]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Pedicels recurved near tips; sepals shorter than to slightly longer than fruits.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Sepals 2–2.5 mm in fruit; fruits 2–2.6 × 1.8–2.3 mm.
|[[Dichondra micrantha|Dichondra micrantha]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Sepals 2.5–3.8 mm in fruit; fruits 2.5–4 × 2.5–3.3 mm.
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaf blades (5–)10–15(–22) × (8–)15–25(–38) mm; corollas 2–3 mm.
|[[Dichondra donelliana|Dichondra donelliana]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaf blades (10–)20–30(–51) × (15–)30–40(–62) mm; corollas 3.1–4 mm.
|[[Dichondra recurvata|Dichondra recurvata]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Dichondra
|author=Daniel F. Austin†
|authority=J. R. Forster & G. Forster
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia;introduced also in Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=Char. Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1776
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Dichondra
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