Centella scabra Adamson

Herbaceous, sprawling or prostrate, rough, varying from densely clothed with short hairs to almost glabrous. Stems woody at the base only, the aerial up to 50 cm long. Basal leaves crowded, almost tufted, the upper scattered, often secund: blades rough, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, flat or occasionally rolled, 3-veined, the lateral veins often only visible in the lower half, acute or mucronate at the tip: petioles of the lower leaves as long as the blades, of the upper short. Umbels 3-rayed, often in groups, often secund and descending on the lateral branches: rays slender, 1-1.5 cm long, usually hairy. Male flowers with 4 hairy bracts, bisexual with 2. Petals densely hairy. Fruit 2.5-
 long, 2-3 mm wide, parallel-sided: mericarps with a distinct dorsal but very faint lateral ridges, the furrows smooth. Bracts acuminate, varying from half as long as to a little longer than the fruit. Fruit on a slender curved ray up to 5 cm long.