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Hydrocotyle asiatica

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Name

Identification
Hydrocotyle asiatica L. [family APIACEAE ] (stored under name); Hydrocotyle thunbergiana Spreng. [family APIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hydrocotyle repanda
  • Hydrocotyle asiatica
  • Centella coriacea
  • Centella erecta
  • Hydrocotyle uniflora
  • Hydrocotyle cordifolia
  • Centella cordifolia
  • Micropleura renifolia
  • Hydrocotyle thunbergiana
  • Centella asiatica

Flora

Entry for HYDROCOTYLE Asiatica Linn. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 524, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
HYDROCOTYLE Asiatica Linn. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Spec. 234—Rich. Hydr. n. 15, f. 11. Cham. & Schlecht, l. c. 365.
HYDROCOTYLE pallida DC. [family UMBELLIFERAE], l. c. 63.
HYDROCOTYLE brevipes E. Mey. [family UMBELLIFERAE], in herb. Drege.
HYDROCOTYLE Asiatica E. & Z. [family UMBELLIFERAE], ! 2155, 2156. Herb. Un. Itin. 405. Zeyh. 2661.
HYDROCOTYLE ficariodes E. & Z. [family UMBELLIFERAE], ! 2155, 2156. Herb. Un. Itin. 405. Zeyh. 2661.
HYDROCOTYLE ficarioides Meisn. [family UMBELLIFERAE], in herb. Krauss.
Information
subvillous or glabrescent; leaves orbicularly reniform, or reniform-cordate, crenated, 7–9 nerved; petioles and peduncles in fascicles, pubescent; umbels capitate, on short peduncles, 3–4 flowered, all the flowers fertile; fruit orbicular, furnished with 4 ribs on both sides, much longer than the involucre. A very variable plant. Stem much-creeping and stoloniferous. Petioles 1 inch or shorter, in other specimens from 2–6 inches long. Leaves thin or coriaceous, larger and rather woolly at the base, with crenated, dentate or nearly quite entire margins; in small specimens 3–4 lines, in the largest 2–2 1/4 inches broad at the base, with rotundate or subtruncate sinus; usually a little broader than long, but sometimes and particularly in var. β. a little longer than broad. Peduncles 2 lines, 1/2 or 1 inch long, terminated by 3 subsessile or short-pedicelled, fertile flowers. Fruit 1 line long, when ripe reticulated, involucrated by 2 shorter ovate leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In humid places on the sides of Table Mountain, in the Cape flats, on the rivers from Zwartkopriver to Port Natal. Var. β, in the same localities and near Bethelsdorf. Dec.-April. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.)

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