Centella villosa L.

Diffuse, more or less prostrate, covered all over with short hairs. Stems woody at the base only, much branched. Leaves usually in groups: blades acute, entire, mucronate, ovate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, the lower cordate at the base, 1-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, the upper smaller, cordate, rounded, truncate or very shortly cuneate at the base, usually oblique: central vein distinct, the lower leaves with 2 other longitudinal veins converging towards the tip: petioles slender, 1.5-5 cm long: sheaths small, not scarious at the edges. Umbels 3-rayed but often closely approximated, the rays about 0-5 cm long. Male flowers with 4 bracts, bisexual with 2. Petals hairy. Fruit flattened, pale-covered, longer than wide, flat-topped, 2-4 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, almost smooth, not wrinkled, the ridges scarcely projecting. Fruit broader than and as long as or slightly longer than the acuminate hairy bracts.