Centella comptonii Adamson

Species

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Characteristics

In prostrate patches. Stems woody below ground, the aerial slender, usually hairy, with many equal branches. Leaves clustered, petiolate, blades ovate or elliptical, 3-veined, 1.5-2 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, cuneate at the base, acute at the tip, thinly ciliate, not coriaceous: petioles 1-2 cm long, thinly hairy. Umbels often aggregated. Petals glabrous, reddish, incurved at the tip. Fruit 4-6 mm long, 3.5-4 mm wide, flattened, notched at the top, the mericarps with 3 distinct ridges on each face, the furrows almost smooth. Bracts acute, ciliate, from half to two-thirds the length of the fruit. Fruit on an erect ray, 0.5-1.25 cm long.
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Trailing, perennial herb, up to 0.15 m high,-like C. glabrata, but smaller, tufted, much-branched and with smaller leaves. Stems usually hairy, with equal branches. Leaves clustered, petiolate; blades narrowly ovate or narrowly elliptic, 3-veined, 15-20 x 3-7 mm, apex acute, thinly ciliate, not coriaceous, base cuneate; petioles 10-20 mm long, thinly hairy. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit 4-6 x 3.5-4.0 mm, 1.5-2.0 x as long as bracts, ray 5.0-12.5 mm long; bracts acute, ciliate.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Distribution

Centella comptonii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840031-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594111
COL ID S7ZM
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Centella comptonii