5893.000 Hydrocotyle - Pennyworts
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 | Image |
| mannii Hook.f. | MS | Description, Image |
| sibthorpioides Lam. | M | Description, Image |
| verticillata Thunb. | GI | Description, Image |
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Flora of Botswana: HydrocotyleFlora of Burundi: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Caprivi: Hydrocotyle
Flora of the DRC: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Malawi: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Rwanda: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Zambia: Hydrocotyle
Flora of Zimbabwe: Hydrocotyle
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): HydrocotyleBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hydrocotyle
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hydrocotyle
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): 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
Plants of the World Online: Hydrocotyle
Tropicos: Hydrocotyle
Wikipedia: Hydrocotyle