Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hydrocotyle oligantha Urban, Repert. Nov. Sp. 24: 7. 1927
Plants glabrous; stems filiform, creeping; leaves thin, peltate, orbicular, 3.5-8 mm. in diameter, 7-9nerved, 7-9-crenulate, the crenulations truncate to subtruncate; petioles slender, about 15-35 mm. long; peduncles shorter than or about equaling the leaves, slender, up to 25 mm. long; umbels simple, 2(rarely 1or 3-)flowered; pedicels ascending, 5-25 mm. long; immature fruit suborbicular, rounded at the base, 2 mm. broad.
Type locality: "Prov. Oriente prope Bayate ad lapides in Rio Jagua," Cuba, Ekman H8578. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
