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Family: Araliaceae
Hydrocotyle plebeya

Citation: A. Rich., Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 4:186, t. 60, fig. 23 (1820).

Synonymy: H. plebeia R. Br. ex Sprengel, Neue Entdeck. 2:290 (1821), orthographic variant].

Common name: None

Description:
Almost glabrous perennial, 8-20 cm high; stem creeping, rooting at the lower nodes and ascending; leaf blades reniform to almost orbicular-cordate, 5-22 mm long, 10-45 mm broad, with 7-9 broad shallow obscurely crenate lobes, the sinus deep and narrow; stipules membranous, almost orbicular, obtuse, entire; peduncles filiform, 2-12 mm long, much shorter than the petioles.

Flowers subsessile, 8-20 in a small globular head; involucral bracts minute, narrow-ovate, acute.

Fruits very flat, c. 1.5 mm long, c. 2.5 mm broad, with prominent acute dorsal and intermediate ribs; carpophore absent.

Distribution:    W.Aust. In moist places and swamps.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Dec. — April.


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