Centella glabrata L.

A low-growing more or less prostrate plant, glabrous, glabrescent or less often shortly hairy. Stems woody and branching below ground, the aerial with short internodes but forming long prostrate lateral branches up to 1 mm long which frequently root at the nodes. The lateral branches often bear erect short shoots. Leaves petiolate, variable in size and shape: blades firm, usually coriaceous, distinctly 3-veined, lanceolate, ovate' lanceolate or oblong, 2.5-5 cm long, 0.4-1.8 cm wide, cuneate at the base, acute or shortly apiculate at the tip, entire or occasionally 2 or 3-toothed: petioles 0.5-4.5 cm long, longer on the short than on the long shoots. Umbels often crowded on the short shoots, 3-rayed, those on the long shoots usually with male flowers only. Petals glabrous or rarely hairy. Fruit longer than wide, 3.5-6.5 mm long, 3-5.5 mm wide, with rather prominent ridges. Bracts acute, shorter than the fruit, varying from very short to two-thirds the length of the fruit. Fruit ray straight or curved, 0.5-1.5 cm long.