Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Centella asiatica

Leaves and flower cluster (arrow points to flower head). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Paul Hadobas, between Bungendore and Braidwood

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 651.

Common name

Indian Pennywort, Gotu Cola

Family

Apiaceae

Where found

Damp places. Mainly Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Creeping perennial herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves in groups at the nodes, 1–4 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, on stalks 1-20 cm long. Leaves more or less round in outline, hairless, margins entire, wavy, or strongly scalloped. Flowers bisexual or the lateral ones male, with 5 petals about 1.5 mm long, pink to crimson or purple or white. Sepals absent. Flowers in clusters of 2-3, sometimes 2-3 clusters together. Flowers mostly summer–autumn.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Centella~asiatica 
(accessed 14 January, 2021)