Centella fusca (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Adamson

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

More or less tufted but often with elongated semierect or sprawling branches. Laxly hirsute all over or glabrescent. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 2-3 occasionally 5 mm wide, often rolled, usually much crowded in fascicles, gradually narrowed at the base to a petiole. Umbels crowded together, 3-rayed with a bisexual flower or with male flowers only, or 1-rayed with a bisexual flower, the last on separate plants. Rays of the male flowers 2-4 mm long. Petals very hairy. Fruit about 4 mm long, and about as wide, not compressed, 2-4 mm thick, obtusely conical or rounded, usually emarginate at the tip, wrinkled or dotted but with very faint ridges. Bracts 4, linear, about as long as the fruit but not appressed to it. Fruit on an erect or spreading ray 0.4-1.5 cm long.
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Suberect, sprawling perennial, 10-40 cm. Leaves indistinctly petiolate, acicular to narrowly lanceolate, shortly and variably hairy, entire. Flowers greenish, bisexual umbellules with 4 (not 2) bracts. Fruit oblong, slightly ribbed, smooth, commissure very prominently bulging.
Like C. cochlearia but leaves indistinctly petiolate, shortly and variably hairy. Male umbellules 5-flowered, bracts 2. Bisexual umbellules 1-flowered, bracts 4. Flowers greenish, without a well-developed stylopodium. Mericarps slightly ribbed.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Centella fusca world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840047-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594130
COL ID S827
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Synonyms

Centella fusca Hydrocotyle fusca