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Hydrocotyle dichondroides Makino

毛柄天胡荽

Description from Flora of China

Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lamarck var. dichondroides (Makino) M. Hiroe.

Stems slender, filiform, creeping to suberect, pilose. Petioles filiform, 0.5–3 cm, densely hirsutulous with recurved white hairs; leaf blade orbicular-reniform, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, glabrous or shortly puberulent along veins on adaxial surface, thin membranous, very shallowly crenately 5- or 7-lobed, lobes inconspicuously crenulate. Umbels solitary at nodes, 2–8-flowered; peduncles filiform, 1–3 cm, usually longer than leaves; pedicels very short, flowers almost sessile. Petals white. Fruit subglobose, ca. 1 mm wide, glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.

This incompletely known species is recorded only from a few collections. It has reputed medicinal value.

Wet walls and rocks; near sea level. N Taiwan (Taipei) [Japan].


 

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