Centella pottebergensis Adamson

Species

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Characteristics

A suberect or sprawling glabrous plant. Stems woody at least at the base. Leaves crowded with long internodes between the clusters, strap-shaped or linear-lanceolate, 2-7.5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide or rarely 7 mm, leathery, brown, 1-veined, acute or rounded at the tip, narrowed at the base to a petiole 1-2 cm long. Upper leaves smaller and with shorter petioles. Umbels 3-rayed with male and bisexual flowers, with male flowers only, or 1-rayed with a bisexual flower, the different kinds usually on the same plant but some plants with male flowers only. Rays 4-  long. Petals glabrous, white. Fruit 3.5-  long and wide, often emarginate at the top, slightly longer than the acute bracts. Mericarps with very small ridges and slightly wrinkled furrows. Fruit on an erect ray not over 0-5 cm long.
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Tufted, suberect perennial to 40 cm. Leaves petiolate, crowded, with long internodes between the clusters, linear-lanceolate, slightly succulent. Flowers greenish. Fruit obovate, longer than bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 5-6
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Distribution

Centella pottebergensis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840063-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594162
COL ID S82T
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Synonyms

Centella pottebergensis