Centella thesioides M.T.R.Schub. & B.-e.van Wyk

Resprouting dioecious perennial herb with flowering branches developing from a woody base; stems with persistent, scale-like leaf bases. Leaves acicular; midrib depressed above; lamina indistinguishable from petiole; basal leaves 53-72 mm long, (1-)1.2-1.5(-1.7) mm wide, upper leaves (6.5-)18-21(-29) mm long; 0.5-1 mm wide; base slightly widened, margin entire, apex acute; dark green, concolorous, surface glabrous on dorsal and ventral side. Inflorescences sparse, borne above vegetative leaves on long shoots; male inflorescence with 6 umbellules; rays 3-4 mm long; bracts 2, bluntly obtuse at apex, glabrous; male flowers 3 on each umbellule, petals almost glabrous; female inflorescence with single umbellule; ray 2.5-6.5 mm long; bracts 4(2 pairs), lower pair undeveloped, remaining at base of ray, upper pair covering entire fruit at base, obtusely blunt at apex, (4.5-)5-6(-7) mm long, 2.5-4 wide, always longer than the fruit. Fruit widely elliptic in commissural view, 3-5 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide, flattened; ribs indistinct, irregularly distributed.