Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
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.
- 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