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Hydrocotyle himalaica P.K.Mukherjee

[ Family : Apiaceae ]
[ Synonyms : Hydrocotyle javanica var. podantha (Molk.) C. B. Clarke ; Hydrocotyle podantha Molk. ]
[ Common name (Local) : Golpatta, Dhungri jhar (Nep.), Himalayan pennywort ]
Name in other Languages :
  • Bengali : Golpatta, Dhungri jhar | Sanskrit : Not available yet | Hindi : Not available yet | Tribal : Not available yet | English : Himalayan pennywort | Other Languages : Aulighar (Sikkim.)
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Plant Characteristics :
Habit : Perennial prostrate herb with runners
Habitat & Ecology : Wild; grows on hills above 1300m, mostly in shady and moist places, like shola floor, stream banks and on rotten wood.,
Occurrence : Occurs in the Darjeeling Himalaya upto 2500m.

Status : Common
Botanical Character : A small much branched prostrate herb, sometimes having short erect branches; branches pubescent, rooting at nodes. Leaves pubescent or glabrous, lamina roundish, 3-7 cm in diam., shortly hairy above, cordate, crenate, lobed to the middle, petiole laxly pubescent. Peduncles long, lower solitary, leaf-opposed, upper often clustered. Flower head stalked, one in each node. Umbels many-flowered; bracts minute lanceolate scales among the pedicels ; pedicels glabrous. Fruits laterally compressed, orbicular or subquadrate; seeds minute, laterally compressed.

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Flowering & Fruiting : June--December
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Soil Character : Mounatinous soil.
Climate : Subtropical to temperate.
Propagules : Rooting nodes
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