Centella stipitata Adamson

Species

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Characteristics

A prostrate or sprawling plant in habit much like C. glabrata. Leaves glabrous or very thinly hairy, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous: blades 3-5 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, acute, 3-veined: petioles 2-6 cm long. Umbels 3-rayed, usually aggregated, the rays slender, 1-1.5 cm long, often thinly hairy. Petals glabrous. Fruit orbicular, 4-5 mm long and about the same in width, emarginate at the top, on a short thick gynophore 1-2 mm long. Bracts usually glabrous, subacute, about as long as the gynophore.
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Sprawling perennial to 30 cm. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Flowers yellowish. Fruit obovate, slightly ribbed, variable in shape, size and surface sculpturing.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Centella stipitata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840074-1
WFO ID wfo-0000594174
COL ID S836
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Synonyms

Centella stipitata