5893.000 Hydrocotyle - 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 Mozambique: 4 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bonariensis Lam. | T,GI,M | Description, Image |
| mannii Hook.f. | MS | Description, Image |
| sibthorpioides Lam. | M | Description, Image |
| verticillata Thunb. | GI | Description, Image |
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Flora of Rwanda: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Zambia: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Zimbabwe: Hydrocotyle
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): HydrocotyleBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hydrocotyle
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hydrocotyle
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iNaturalist: Hydrocotyle
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hydrocotyle
JSTOR Plant Science: Hydrocotyle
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hydrocotyle
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Tropicos: Hydrocotyle
Wikipedia: Hydrocotyle