Common name
English: Indian pennywort
German: Indischer Wassernabel
Mandarin: 积雪草 (ji xue cao)
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2656)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2569)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2165)
Order: Apiales (37)
Family: Apiaceae (27)(family description)
Genus: Centella (1)
Epithet: asiatica (L.) Urban (3)
Synonyms: Hydrocotyle asiatica L., Hydrocotyle erecta Linnaeus F.
asiatica => of Asiatic origin
erecta => upright, perpendicular
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
External links
Check for Centella asiatica at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [1447] Centella asiatica - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Literature
- [14] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1984): Plants of cropland in Western Samoa with special reference to taro. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.