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Holotype of Hydrocotyle interrupta Elliott [family APIACEAE]

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Hydrocotyle sp. Not on sheet [family APIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Hydrocotyle interrupta Elliott [family APIACEAE ] Verified by Bray, E.C., 1984 Hydrocotyle interrupta Elliott [family APIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,

Flora

Entry for HYDROCOTYLE verticillata Thunb. [family UMBELLIFERAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 524, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)

HYDROCOTYLE verticillata Thunb. [family UMBELLIFERAE], ! diss. de Hydroc. 1798, t. 3,)—Flor. cap. 252. E. & Z.! 2154.

HYDROCOTYLE interrupta Muehl. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Catal. p. 10, (1813).

HYDROCOTYLE vulgaris Cham. & Schlecht. α, communis [family UMBELLIFERAE], Linnæa, vol. 1, 356.

HYDROCOTYLE vulgaris Thunb. [family UMBELLIFERAE], fl. cap. and E. & Z. 2153. Zeyh. 2659–2660.

leaves peltate, orbicular, doubly crenated, 11-nerved, glabrous as well as the petioles; flowers disposed in many, subdistant whorls, ultimate ones umbellate; fruit rather attenuated at the base, coloured. Stems rooting at the nodes. Petioles 2–6 inches long. Leaves orbicular, 1–2 uncial. Peduncles shorter than the petioles. Umbels in the young plant capitate, about 5-flowered, as in H. vulgaris. Fruit about 1 line broad, 3/4 line long, usually reddish-brown; mericarps with 1 or 2 ribs on each side.

SOUTH AFRICA Marshy, boggy places, and on the margins of rivulets near Capetown, Zwartkopsriver, Howison's Poort, Olifantsriver, etc. Oct.-April. (Herb. Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.)