Hydrocotyle comocarpa

Procumbent or ascending annual 3–15 cm high, usually branched from base. Leaf-lamina orbicular-cordate to reniform, mostly glabrous, 5–10 mm across, deeply 5–7-lobed, lobes crenate; petiole c. 1–5 cm long, pilose with long simple hairs; stipules narrow-obovate to lanceolate, entire, white to yellow. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, 3–6 mm diam., 10–20-flowered; peduncle 5–8 mm long; pedicel to 0.5 mm long. Fruits broad-ovate to almost circular, slightly compressed laterally, c. 2 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide; mericarps with a row of flat scarious hairs to c. 1 mm long at apex, dorsal edges of mericarps obtuse, lateral faces transversely wrinkled or ridged. Flowers spring.