Botanical name

Centella tridentata var. tridentata

Family

Apiaceae
Centella tridentata var. tridentata
Centella tridentata var. tridentata
Centella tridentata var. tridentata
Centella tridentata var. tridentata
Centella tridentata var. tridentata
Centella tridentata var. tridentata

Description

Laxly branched, decumbent annual or short-lived perennial, up to 20cm. Leaves petiolate (with a leaf stalk), cuneate, densely to sparsely hairy, margin mostly 3-5 toothed above; whitish flowers in sessile (stalkless) umbels, with 4 lateral, shortly pedicellate male flowers and a central, sessile, bisexual flower.

Fruit obovate, shorter than the bracts, ribbed, wrinkled, thinly hairy.

Habitat

Mainly coastal flats and lower slopes

Flower Date

August to December