Centella linifolia Drude

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

Rigid erect woody plant, up to 50 cm high, with fork-like branches. Glabrous, glabrescent or pubescent, often glaucous. Leaves clustered, rigid, 2-5 cm long, the basal up to 8 cm, linear, 1-4 mm wide, flat, revolute or the upper terete, often rough. Umbels usually dioecious, male 3-6-rayed, with rays 4-6 mm long, each with 2 or 3 flowers: bisexual flowers solitary on a ray 2-5 mm long. Umbels with both male and bisexual flowers may occur on plants with otherwise male flowers. Petals glabrous, white or pink. Fruit rounded or slightly longer than wide, 2.5-5 mm diam., dark green, the mericarps with distinct curved ridges and much wrinkled furrows. Bracts acute or acuminate, much longer than the flowers, shorter than the fruit. Fruit ray erect or spreading, 0.5-1 cm long.
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Erect or suberect, woody shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves linear, sparsely hairy or glabrous, glaucous. Flowers yellowish. Fruit obovate, shorter than bracts, indistinctly ribbed, wrinkled.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 6-8
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Distribution

Centella linifolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840059-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594152
COL ID S82L
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Centella linifolia Hydrocotyle linifolia Centella glabrata var. linifolia Centella linifolia var. linifolia

Lower taxons

Centella linifolia var. depressa