Centella asiatica

雷公根

Centella asiatica (L.) Urban

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

Urban, Flora Brasiliensis 11(1): 287. pl. 78. fig. 1. 1879. (Fl. Bras.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Liu, Chao & Chuang, Quarterly journal of the Taiwan Museum 14(1-2): 23. pl. 4. fig. 8. 1961. (Quart. J. Taiwan Mus.)

異名

無

各語言俗名

中

馬蹄草. 銅錢草. 含殼草. 蚋仔草. 積雪草. 地棠草. 蚶殼仔草. 蚶殼草. 老公根.
英

Asiatic pennywort. Asiatic centella.
日

つぼくさ.
原

Zyatyara (Paiwan). Tyaboryaryai (Paiwan). Pakkaitu (Atayal).
台

Hâm khak á chháu. Lā á chháu. Hâm khak chháu.
客

Lui gùng gin.

參考文獻

Ciou & Pong, Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 106. 2008. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Hui-Chun Hsu, Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology . 2007. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county.)
W. C. Lin, Wild flowers of Taiwan - the 1300 species found in the lower elevation . 2005. (Wild flowers of Taiwan)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

特徵描述

生活型

herb

形態特徵

A perennial herb, wooly-pubescent when young; stems long-creeping, rooting at nodes, the scalelike leaves in false pairs.
Leaves orbicular-reniform, entire, crenate or lobulate, 2.5–5 cm in diameter, glabrous or nearly so; petioles 4–10 cm long, pubescent.
Umbels axillary, 3–5-flowered, peduncles 2–8 mm long, the pedicels very short or obsolete; involucral bracts 2, ovate, membranous, persistent.
Fruit about 3 mm long, 3–4 mm broad, flattened, depressed, ovate-globose, loosely pubescent when young, soon glabrate.

分布

台灣 : Throughout the island, from low to medium altitudes.
世界 : Distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan, Chuang & Kao 3304*; Keelung, DeVol & Kao 4047. ILAN: Lotung, Suzuki 3700. TAOYUAN: Jenmei, Kuo 6276. HSINCHU: Hsiangshan, Peng 3168. TAICHUNG: Sekihekiko, Suzuki s. n. 1922. YUNLIN: Taishi, Yang 540. NANTOU: Chingshuikou, Huang, Kou & Kao 8333. CHIAYI: Wufengmiao, Hsu & Kuoh 7497. PENGHU: Tunglian, Cheng s. n. 1933. PINGTUNG: Pinlang, Hsu & Kuoh 8230. TAITUNG: Is. Lutao, Huang 7018; Is. Lanyu, Huang 9348.