Botanical name
Centella tridentata var. tridentataFamily
ApiaceaeDescription
Laxly branched, decumbent annual or short-lived perennial, up to 20cm. Leaves petiolate (with a leaf stalk), cuneate, densely to sparsely hairy, margin mostly 3-5 toothed above; whitish flowers in sessile (stalkless) umbels, with 4 lateral, shortly pedicellate male flowers and a central, sessile, bisexual flower.
Fruit obovate, shorter than the bracts, ribbed, wrinkled, thinly hairy.
Habitat
Mainly coastal flats and lower slopes
Flower Date
August to December