Key to Hydrocotyle

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(For a list of species in Hydrocotyle, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Leaf 

blade 

Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.

round-reniform, not 

peltate 

With the stalk attached toward the middle, not at a margin, of a flat structure such as an indusium, scale, or leaf.

..... H. ranunculoides

1' Leaf blade round, peltate

2. Flowers long-pedicelled; inflorescence of open umbels ..... H. umbellata

2' Flowers ± 

sessile 

Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.

; inflorescence of spikes, flowers 

whorled 

Arranged in groups of three or more at nodes or positions along an axis (e.g., three leaves per node).

..... H. verticillata

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