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Published In: Flora Brasiliensis 11(1): 287. 1879. (Fl. Bras.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Frt. Per. April to September.
Type: Type : India
Distribution: Distribution: Tropical America, Africa, India, W. Pakistan, China, Japan and Pacific Islands.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Pennywort is a plant of wet and damp places in the plains and the foothills. The plant is used in indigenous medicine for skin diseases.
Illustration: Centella asiatica (L.) Urb. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-7 Hazara: Sarai Saleh, Stewart & Nasir 27642 (RAW); Rawalpindi Distt.: Rawalpindi, Khazan Chand, August 1940 (RAW) ; C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Jhelum, R.R. Stewart 509 (RAW); C-8 Kashmir; Mirpur, M.A. Siddiqi 27963 (RAW); Nakial, R.R. Stewart & A. Rashid, 22.4.54 (RAW); Kotli, Hilan Khurd, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 5450 (RAW) ; D-8 Lahore Dist.; Lahore, R.R. Stewart 7086 (RAW).

 

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Rootstock perennial. Stem creeping, rooting at the nodes, glabrous to finely pubescent. Leaves simple, reniform, long petioled; dorsal surface with minute hair clusters; margin repand; leaf bases sheathing; petioles arachnoid. Inflorescence glabrate to finely arachnoid. Involucre of 2 ovate bracts. Umbels 2-4 flowered. Flowers white. Calyx teeth obsolete. Stylopodium depressed, purplish; styles short. Fruit ovate to orbicular, 2-3 mm long; primary ridges prominent, secondary forming a network; vittae not distinct.
 
 
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