Taxon

Hydrocotyle verticillata

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Common name: whorled pennywort
Family: Apiaceae (Carrot)
Distribution: Global
Habitat: Wetlands
National red list: Least Concern
Life form: Herbaceous perennial
Usage: Horticultural, Medicinal
Comments: The creeping wetland plant is best known as an aquarium plant, but is also recorded as an Ayurvedic medicinal plant used to treat various ailments.
Other Hydrocotyle species occur in Southern Africa, but this globally distributed wetland plant is the only species recorded in the Cape.
Links: iNaturalist.org • Journal of Indian System of Medicine • Red List of South African Plants

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