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Magnoliopsida
Hydrocotyle L.
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Plants slender, creeping. Stem glabrous, rooting at the nodes. Leaves petio¬late, almost round, 7-9 veined, 5-20 mm in diameter; ventral surface pubescent; margin crenate; petioles glabrous; stipules scarious, mottled. Flowers 3-10 in an umbel, subsessile. Fruit orbicular, 1 mm broad.
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Major Threats
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centenosídeos
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Plants strongly aromatic. Stem weak, slender, filiform, creeping, diffusely branched. Petioles 0.7–9 cm, glabrous or distally pubescent; leaf blade reniform-rounded, 0.5–1.5 × 0.8–2.5 cm; membranous, variably hairy, adaxially glabrous and abaxially sparsely strigose along veins, or sometimes both surfaces glabrous or densely puberulous, base cordate, entire or shallowly 5–7-lobed, lobes rounded. Umbel solitary at the nodes, each umbel 5–8-flowered; peduncle filiform, 0.5–3.5 cm, 1–1/3 the length of the petioles; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm, membranous, with bright yellow glands; pedicels obsolete or almost so. Petals greenish white, ca. 1.2 mm, with yellow glands. Styles 0.6–1 mm, spreading. Fruit broadly globose, greenish yellow when young, covered with purplish stains when mature; intermediate ribs very prominent. Fl. and fr. Apr–Sep.
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Major Threat (s): There is no reported threats for the species.
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centenosídeos
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600-2500 m
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Conservation Actions
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Delicate creeping perennial herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves singly or in clusters of 2-3 at the nodes, small, kidney-shaped in outline, 5-7-lobed, narrowly cordate at the base; hairless above, with some crisped hairs below, particularly when young; margin coarsely toothed. Petiole up to 40 mm long. Flowers in axillary, 3-10-flowered umbels, greenish. Fruit, 1.5 × 1 mm, greenish to yellowish-brown, broadly ellipsoid, laterally compressed, notched at the apex.