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3. Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lam.wfo-0000726583

Enc. 3: 153. 1789; Craib in Fl. Siam. En. 1: 787. 1931; Merr., Comm. Lour. 293. 1935; Buwalda in Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 4: 115, fig. 1. 1949; Hiroe, Umbell. Asia 10. 1958; Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 2: 172. 1965; Tard.-Blot in Fl. C.L.V. 5: 14. 1967; Liou Shou-lu in Fl. Reip. Pop. Sini. 55.1: 17. 1979. Fig. 97: 1.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Stems slender to filiform, 7–30 cm, prostrate or terminally ascending, glabrous or with few pilose hairs. Stipules membranous, entire or fringed. Leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline, 6–20 mm broad, with 3–5 lobed or crenate lobes, glabrous or pilose, gland-dotted or not; petiole 15–60 mm. Peduncles 0.5–3 cm, filiform. Bracts at base of and amongst flowers. Umbels 3–10-flowered, condensed. Pedicels very short or obsolete. Petals greenish-white, ca 0.8 mm. Fruit suborbigular or oblate, 0.8–1 by 1 mm, brownish, glabrous or short-pilose with or without red glands, ribs distinct, raised.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Chiang Dao), Mae Hong Son (Mae Surin), Phrae (Mae Krai), Tak (Mae Tha to Mae On); EASTERN: Ubon Ratchathani (Khemmarat); CENTRAL: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok) (Thon Buri).

Distribution : Tropical Asia, especially SE, China, Australia (? introduced), tropical Africa (type).

Ecology : Damp ground at streamsides, crevices of limestone rocks, garden weed, 350–2,100 m alt.

Vernacular : Klet hoi (เกล็ดหอย), ya klet hoi (หญ้าเกล็กหอย)(Central).

Uses: In Craib ( l.c.) is noted “sold in Bangkok market for medicinal purposes”.

Notes: Somewhat variable in leaf dimensions and the presence or absence of indumentum.