Centella lanata Compton

Prostrate or sprawling. When young covered with dense white or brown woolly hairs, later more or less glabrescent. Stems up to 40 cm long, firm, woody in the lower parts, usually with long internodes. Leaves solitary or in groups of 2 or 3: blades coriaceous, reniform, usually wider than long, 1-2 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, widely cordate or truncate at the base, rugose, not distinctly paler below, the veins slightly depressed above and projecting below, the edges shallowly crenate or dentate: petioles up to 4 cm long: sheaths with projecting lobes. Umbels 3-6 rayed, the rays densely tomentose, 0.4-1 cm long. Male flowers in groups of 2 or 3. Petals with a few hairs on the back. Fruit orbicular or obcordate, 3-4 mm long, 3.5-5 mm wide, pale brown, wrinkled, longer than the acuminate tomentose bracts.