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Hydrocotyle moschata

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Name

Identification
Hydrocotyle moschata G. Forst. [family APIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hydrocotyle moschata

Flora

Entry for HYDROCOTYLE hederæfolia Burch. [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 hederæfolia Burch. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Trav. 1. 46;—DC. l. c. 70. Herb. Un. Itin. 407. E. & Z. 2161.
HYDROCOTYLE macrodus Spreng. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Cham. & Schlecht. l. c.
HYDROCOTYLE moschata Spreng. [family UMBELLIFERAE], non Thunb.
Information
perennial, decumbent, villous; leaves cordately-reniform, coarsely 3–7- toothed; teeth or lobules subequal, acute, entire; peduncles geminate or ternate, shorter than the leaves, with a 3-flowered, monocarpous umbel; fruit glabrous, suborbicularly-cordate, as long or a little shorter than the villous, ovate-acuminate involucre. Much smaller than H. flexuosa, herbaceous, not woody at the base. Petioles filiform, 1–2 inches long. Leaves 6–8 lines broad, 4–6 lines long, usually 5-toothed or lobed, the lobes 3-angulate, the middle sometimes larger; greenish, with impressed nerves above; on both sides appressed villous by short hairs, at length subglabrous. Peduncles 4–6 lines long. Fruit as in H. flexuosa, from which it is chiefly distinguished by the scarcely-villous, 5-angled-leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Table Mountain, Burchell, E. & Z., Mundt. Nov.-Jan. (Herb. Reg. Berol. Sd.)

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