5893.000 Hydrocotyle L. - Pennyworts
Meerts, P. (2024)
Araliaceae Sous-famille II. Hydrocotyloideae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique
Description of the genus
Creeping perennials, rooting at the nodes. Leaves on
slender petioles, sometimes peltate. Inflorescence a simple umbel (sometimes ±
capitate) or an interrupted spike. Flowers white to greenish-yellow; calyx
teeth minute; stylopodium depressed. Fruit strongly laterally flattened;
carpophore 0. Vittae 0 to well-developed. Worldwide: c. 130 species, cosmopolitan DRC: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | Botanical divisions | Content |
| bonariensis Lam. | I | Description, Image |
| mannii Hook.f. | VIII,IX | Description, Image |
| ranunculoides L. f. | VI,VIII,IX,XI | Description, Image |
| sibthorpioides Lam. | VI,IX,XI | Description, Image |
| verticillata Thunb. | VIII,IX,XI | Description, Image |
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