Centella callioda Drude

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

A slender almost glabrous sprawling or scrambling herb. Stems with long internodes, often slightly hairy at the nodes. Leaves in groups, often on short shoots: blades thin, palish green, reniform or semicircular, or the lower rotund, usually wider than long, 0.8-3.5 cm wide, 1.3-3 cm long, truncate or very widely cordate at the base, concolorous, smooth, with 5, less often 7, radiating veins: veins not depressed above, not or very slightly raised below, the median usually larger than the others: edges dentate or serrate, the teeth mucronate, often long and very narrow, sometimes curved: petioles up to 8 cm long, almost or quite glabrous: sheaths usually slightly hairy, with obtuse lobes at the top. Umbels 3-rayed but often closely approximated, the rays slender, usually slightly hairy. Flowers with 4 acuminate bracts. Petals glabrous. Fruit orbicular, flattened, 3.5-4.5 mm, long 2.5-6 mm wide, slightly wrinkled, about twice as long as the acuminate bracts. Fruit on a slender usually deflexed ray up to 3 cm long.
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Sprawling, slender perennial to 50 cm. Leaves reniform to semicircular, distinctly dentate with prominent long teeth which sometimes curve at tips. Flowers cream-coloured. Fruit round, mostly longer than bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Centella callioda world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840027-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594106
COL ID S7ZH
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Synonyms

Centella callioda Hydrocotyle calliodus