Centella triloba Drude

A stout sprawling or prostrate apparently glabrous herb. Stems woody at the base, branched, up to 50 cm long, often with long stout prostrate ridged lateral branches. Leaves clustered, more or less shining green, rather thick, glabrous, petiolate: blades cuneate-spathulate or broadly wedge-shaped, usually 3-veined, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, with 3-9 almost equal acute teeth at the tip: petioles 2-6 cm long: sheaths ciliate. Umbels sessile, many-rayed, the rays as long as or longer than the hairy acuminate involucral bracts. Petals hairy. Fruit pale-coloured, flattened, 3-4 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, not much wrinkled, the ridges not prominent. Bracts acuminate, half to three-quarter the length of the fruit. Fruit ray finally 1-2 cm long and usually deflexed.