Centella eriantha Drude

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

A more or less glabrescent prostrate or sprawling herb with slender stems woody in the oldest parts only. Stems usually with long inter-nodes, the leaves in groups. Leaves glabrescent: blades rotund or reniform, usually deeply cordate, obtuse, 1-3 cm long, 1.3-4 cm wide, darker above, paler below, the margins crenate, dentate or almost entire, sometimes slightly lobed, the teeth obtuse, acute or mucronate, occasionally hooked: veins depressed above, prominent below, usually 7, less often 5 or 9, radiating from the top of the petiole, the median not larger than the others: petioles usually hairy, 1-8 cm long: sheaths hairy. Umbels sessile, 3-rayed, but often closely aggregated and apparently many-rayed: rays slender, up to 2 cm long, hairy or less often glabrous. Petals glabrous. Fruit orbicular-obcordate, 3-4 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide, the mericarps wrinkled, with distinct but not prominent ridges. Bracts 2, thin, hairy but glabrescent, as long as the fruit or half its length.
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Sprawling perennial, up to 0.2-0.5 m high. Leaves reniform to widely cordate, glabrous to sparsely hairy, crenate or dentate with mucronate teeth. Flowers greenish. Flowering time Oct.-Dec. Fruit oblong to rounded, mostly longer than bracts.
Sprawling perennial to 50 cm. Leaves reniform to widely cordate, glabrous to sparsely hairy, crenate or dentate with mucronate teeth. Flowers greenish. Fruit oblong to rounded, mostly longer than bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.5
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Soil humidity 10-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Centella eriantha world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840042-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594125
COL ID S822
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INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Centella eriantha Hydrocotyle eriantha Centella eriantha var. eriantha

Lower taxons

Centella eriantha var. orientalis Centella eriantha var. rotundifolia