Centella flexuosa Drude

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

Densely covered all over with white, grey or rusty short spreading hairs. Stems sprawling, woody at the base only. Leaves clustered: petioles up to 10 cm long: blades cordate, acute 1-2 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, the edges with large triangular shortly mucronate teeth about 2 mm deep and 3 mm wide at the base: sheaths obtuse, with a broad membranous edge. Umbels 3-rayed. Petals slightly hairy on the back. Fruit pale-coloured, orbicular, about 4 mm long and wide, not wrinkled but with distinct ridges, enclosed by 2 woolly acute or acuminate bracts 7 mm long and 4-5 mm wide at the base. Fruit on a ray 2-3.5 cm long, often deflexed.
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Sprawling perennial to 30 cm. Leaves widely cordate, sparsely or densely white-or brown-woolly, dentate with large, triangular teeth. Flowers greenish. Fruit oblong, shorter and wider than bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 6-9
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Distribution

Centella flexuosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840044-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594127
COL ID S824
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Centella flexuosa Hydrocotyle flexuosa