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Centella asiatica
(Apiaceae)

 
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Species description or overview

Centella asiatica information from PIER
Information on Centella asiatica as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Centella asiatica
Nomenclatural information about Centella asiatica is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Centella asiatica
Nomenclatural information about Centella asiatica is provided by ITIS.

IPNI nomenclature info for Centella asiatica
Nomenclatural information about Centella asiatica is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Centella asiatica (Apiaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Centella asiatica as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Images

Images of Centella asiatica (Apiaceae) (Asiatic pennywort, pohe kula)
Links to high-resolution free images of Centella asiatica (Apiaceae) (Asiatic pennywort, pohe kula) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Centella asiatica
Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst, and D. H. Lorence. 2005-. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm [accessed Apr 2006])

Centella asiatica images from PIER
Images of Centella asiatica provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Herbarium specimens

Images of voucher specimens for Centella asiatica from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA)
Images of voucher specimens of Centella asiatica from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA) are available online.

Distribution

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Centella asiatica
Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst, and D. H. Lorence. 2005-. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm [accessed Apr 2006])

Books

Weed handbook of Western Polynesia
Whistler, W. Arthur. 1983. Weed handbook of Western Polynesia. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft f#r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. ISBN: 3-88085-227-8. ISSN: (unknown or N/A).

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