Centella cryptocarpa M.T.R.Schub. & B.-e.van Wyk

Species

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Characteristics

Tufted, prostrate andromonoecious perennial, up to 0.5 m wide, with flowering branches spreading horizontally. Leaves crowded, distinctly petiolate; petiole (2-)20-40(-60) mm long, pubescent along entire length; lamina ovate to very widely ovate, (10-)20-25(-45) mm long, (5-)15-20(-35) mm wide, the base attenuate, 'main veins abaxially raised and adaxially sunken, surface on both sides pubescent, green-brown, concolorous, the margin entire or rarely dentate in upper half and entire in lower half, one to three teeth per leaf, apex acuminate. Inflorescence of bisexual plants with one to three bisexual umbellules and inflorescence of male plants with three to nine umbellules. Male umbellules (5-)7(-10) mm long, reduced to one to five sessile male flowers each. Bisexual umbellules (2-)7(-11) mm long, reduced to a single flower each; borne in axils of flowering shoots; bracts of male umbellules one or two pairs, 1-1.5 mm long, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous; paired bracts enclosing single male flowers larger than other male umbels; bracts of the bisexual umbellule paired, (5-) 7(-10) mm long, (3-) 5(-6) mm wide, foliaceous, red-brown, abaxially sericeous, adaxially glabrous except along upper margin; cauline bracts (those below the inflorescences) sessile, narrowly triangular to acuminate. Flowers bisexual or male; petals abaxially villous. Fruit widely elliptic, 5 mm long, 3 mm wide in commissural view, commissure constricted, ribs not distinct, surface between ribs wrinkled, glabrous; stylopodium not prominent.
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Tufted, prostrate perennial to 10 cm. Leaves petiolate, crowded, widely ovate to very widely ovate, densely hairy, entire or rarely dentate above. Flowers whitish or yellowish, male umbellules with 1-5 flowers. Fruit widely elliptic, shorter and narrower than the exceptionally large bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Centella cryptocarpa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1011893-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594115
COL ID S7ZQ
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Synonyms

Centella cryptocarpa