Centella sessilis Adamson

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Centella

Characteristics

In small tufts with prostrate stems often buried in the soil but not rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2-6 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrous oblanceolate or narrow-oblong, 1-veined, acute, entire or occasionally a few with 1 or 2 teeth at the tip, coriaceous or somewhat succulent, often glaucous, gradually narrowed at the base to a short petiole. Umbels aggregated, the male and bisexual on separate plants: male with 4-6 rays each with 3 flowers though commonly one is abortive: bisexual flowers solitary on a short erect ray 2-3 mm long. Petals glabrous, large, white. Fruit compressed, wider than long, emarginate at the top, 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, dark green, slightly longer than the acute bracts. Mericarps with rather prominent curved ridges. Fruit ray short or occasionally elongating to 4-6 mm.
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Tufted, mat-forming, perennial herb, up to 0.4 m high. Leaves petiolate or almost sessile, crowded, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, slightly succulent, mostly entire, sometimes 2-or 3-toothed. Flowers whitish or greenish. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit round to widely depressed-ovate, longer than bracts.
Tufted, mat-forming perennial. Leaves indistinctly petiolate, crowded, oblanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, slightly succulent, mostly entire, sometimes 2-or 3-toothed. Flowers whitish. Fruit round to widely depressed-ovate, longer than bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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

Cultivation

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Distribution

Centella sessilis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840071-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594171
COL ID S833
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Centella sessilis