Centella affinis (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Adamson

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

Slender, sprawling or prostrate, glabrous, glabrescent or rarely hairy. Aerial stems many, not rooting nor forming short shoots. Leaves petiolate: blades linear or linear-lanceolate, parallel-sided, 1-4 cm long, rarely over 5 mm wide, commonly 2-3 mm, thin, flat or sometimes rolled, 1-veined or if 3-veined the lateral marginal, acute or mucronate at the tip, the mucro often curved: petioles of the lower leaves up to 6 cm long, shorter in the upper. Umbels 3-rayed, often crowded: rays slender 0.4-0.8 cm long. Petals glabrous. Fruit flattened, circular in outline, 2.5-4 mm diam., often emarginate at the tip, much longer than the acute bracts. Mericarps with 3 curved ridges on each face and wrinkled furrows. Fruit ray very slender, 1-2.5 cm long, usually curved and deflexed at least at the tip.
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Slender, tufted, prostrate to suberect perennial to 30 cm. Leaves variable, usually narrowly linear. Flowers yellowish. Fruit round, thin and flat, smooth, commissure sometimes slightly bulging.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 3-6
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Distribution

Centella affinis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840020-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594093
COL ID S7Z7
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Synonyms

Centella affinis Hydrocotyle larranagii Hydrocotyle rigescens Hydrocotyle affinis Hydrocotyle linearis Centella glabrata var. affinis Centella affinis var. affinis

Lower taxons

Centella affinis var. oblonga