Taxon: Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.

• the 6 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Asiatic pennywort   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• gotu kola   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• Indian pennywort   (Source: HortTechnology 6:14.) – English
  
• marsh pennywort   (Source: HortTechnology 6:14.) – English
  
• pennyweed   (Source: HortTechnology 6:14.) – English
  
• sheeprot   (Source: HortTechnology 6:14.) – English
  
• thankuni   (Source: P.K. Muhkerjee, p.c.) – English
  
• ji xue cao   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• écuelle d'eau   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• asiatisches Sumpfpfennigkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• tsubo-kusa   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• hierba de clavo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sombrerito   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sallatsspikblad   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide HortTechnology 6:13-18. 1996)
  
• Medicines: source of asiaticoside   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):190. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu [s.], Jiangxi, Shaanxi [s.], Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [e.], Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Indo-China: Cambodia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 3:1259.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kala, C. P. et al. 2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conservation 13:459.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [accepts].
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Muhkerjee, P. K. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Mukherjee, P. K. & L. Constance. 1993. Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) of India.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):190.
• Peiris, K. H. S. & S. J. Kays. 1996. HortTechnol. 6:13–18.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Plants of the East Caribbean online database (on-line resource).
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Centella asiatica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Centella asiatica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Centella asiatica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hydrocotyle asiatica L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Hydrocotyle erecta L. f.
  

Check other web resources for Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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