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Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.
A slender trailing herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 1.3?6.3 cm diameter, orbicular reniform, more or less cupped, entire, crenate or lobulate, glabrous; leaf stalks 2-5 cm long; peduncle about 6 mm, often 2-3 nates; pedicels nil; bracts small, embracing the flowers; inflorescence in single umbel, bearing 1?5 flowers, sessile, white or reddish, The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Fruit small, compressed, 8mm long, mericarps longer than broad, curved, rounded at top, 7-9-ridged, secondary ridges as prominent as the primary, reticulate between them; pericarp much thickened; seed compressed laterally.