Characteristics
Dicots
Centella asiatica (L.)Urb.
SPADELEAF
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Schubert (2000: 36, 74, 89-103) supported treating this species as pantropical and the only member of the genus native outside of Africa, writing that "it is not unexpected to find variations in the morphology of different specimens of the extremely widespread C. asiatia [...] the previous splitting of C. asiatica into a number of species and varieties is not followed [...] the C. asiatica complex is exceptionally variable [...] the variation seems to be quantitative rather than qualitative".
Native
FACW (NWPL)
T (WAP)
FACW (DEP)
Citation
CENTELLA ASIATICA (Linnaeus) Urban, in Martius, Fl. Bras. 11(1): 287. 1879.
Hydrocotyle asiatica Linnaeus 1753.
INDIA: Without data (lectotype: LINN 332.5). Lectotypified by Townsend, in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Umbelliferae 15. 1989.
Species Distribution Map
Plant Photos
Centella asiatica
- James Burkhalter
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Centella asiatica
- Dennis Girard
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Centella asiatica
- Dennis Girard
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Centella asiatica
- Alan R. Franck
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