Hydrocotyle bowlesioides Mathias & Constance

Áreas alteradas.

Distribucion en Costa Rica: Endémica. Todas las cordilleras del país, incluyendo el Valle Central, entre 1.100 a 2.000 m de elevación.
Distribucion General:

Hierba.

Una de las especies relativamente comunes, es posible encontrarla creciendo en jardines y pastizales o paredones del Valle Central.

Hierba rastrera y tallos esparcidamente hirsutos. Hojas de 0,5 a 3,2 cm de diámetro, epeltadas, levemente 5-lobuladas; lóbulos crenados y serrados; peciolos de 1,0 a 8,0 (-10,5) cm de largo. Inflorescencias con el pedúnculo más corto que las hojas, flores sésiles, pétalos verde-crema, frutos hispidulosos. Se distingue de Hydrocotyle torresiana por sus hojas 5-lobuladas, presenta lóbulos crenados y frutos hispidulosos.

Localidad del tipo: Costa Rica: wet pasture, Vara Blanca de Sarapiqui, north slope of Central Cordillera, between Poas and Barba volcanoes, alt. 1740 m, Feb 1938
Depositario del tipo: Holotipo, Skutch 3573 (US)
Recolector del tipo:

Hydrocotyle bowlesioides Math. & Const. Bull. Torrey Club 69: 151. 1942.
Stems slender, creeping, hirsute; leaves not peltate, roundish-reniform with a sinus at the base, excluding the petioles 10-20 mm. long, 15-30 mm. broad, shallowly 5-lobed, the lobes obtusely triangular, crenate, subequal, hirsute on both surfaces; petioles slender, 1-12 cm. long, reflexed-hirsute especially above; peduncles much shorter than the leaves, axillary, slender, 2-12 mm. long, sparsely hirsute; umbels not proliferous, 2-10-flowered, globose; styles persistent, the stylopodium depressed; fruit sessile, ellipsoid in general outline, about 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, finely hispidulous in the intervals, the ribs evident, acute, subequal.
Type locality: Wet pasture, Vara Blanca de Sarapiqui, north slope of Central Cordillera, between Poas and Barba volcanoes, Costa Rica, alt. 1740 m., Skutch 3573. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Hydrocotyle bowlesioides là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng. Loài này được Mathias & Constance mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1942.