Family:
Araliaceae Juss.
Genus:
Hydrocotyle Tourn. ex L.

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L.f.

This species is accepted, and its native range is America. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine and for food.

[FTEA]

Umbelliferae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989

Morphology General Habit
Glabrous creeping herb, rooting freely with dense clusters of white, slender rootlets from the nodes; stem slender to rather stout (to ± 5 mm. in diameter), terete, pale green or brownish.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves not peltate, the lamina reniform and resembling that of Ranunculus peltatus, with 5–7(–8) rounded, bluntly crenate or shallowly dentate lobes (the terminal usually deepest), ± 1.4–12 × 0.8–8 cm., wider than long; petiole long, (2–)3.5–32 cm., fleshy; stipules hyaline, rather large.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a dense umbel of 5–9(–12) flowers; peduncle usually short, 1–5(–12) cm.; involucre of 3–5 obtuse to acute, shortly oblong or lanceolate-oblong very small bracts.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals greenish yellow, narrowly triangular, ± 0.75 mm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit strongly laterally compressed, broader than long, yellowish green or purplish spotted to dark brownish, verruculose when ripe, 2.5–3 × 2 mm., the ribs filiform and only the central dorsal slightly prominent, very shortly pedicellate, truncate or very shallowly emarginate at the apex, shallowly emarginate at the base; stylopodia very flattened, ± obsolete; styles spreading, slender, ± 0.5–0.75 mm.
Figures
Fig. 1/6, p.11.
Habitat
In muddy ground by streams, swamps and lakes with such wet ground plants as Spilanthes, Jussiaea, Sphaeranthus, Juncellus, etc.; also found floating, sometimes in quite deep water with Nymphaeaceae; 1370–2000 m.
Distribution
K1 K3 K4 K6 T1 T2 T5 U2 U4 also widespread in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, and naturalised in Spain and Italy

[UPB]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Ecology
Alt. 1500 - 3800 m.
Morphology General Habit
Herb.
Conservation
Least concern.
Distribution
Native from Colombia.

[UNAL]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
chupana, oreja de ratón, paraguas, sombrerito de agua

[FZ]

Umbelliferae, J. F. M. Cannon. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978

Morphology General Habit
Glabrous creeping herb, densely rooting at the nodes.
Morphology Stem
Stem prostrate with long or short internodes of 1–9 cm., terete and soft.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves arising singly at the nodes on petioles 2–25 cm. long; lamina 0·6–4·5 × 1–6 cm., reniform with a deep basal sinus; margin ± crenately divided into 5–8 lobes, each lobe with small secondary crenulations.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Umbels simple with 5–10 flowers, subcapitate on peduncles 1·5–5 cm. long, much shorter than the subtending petioles; rays very short to obsolete.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals greenish-white.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit transversely subrectangular, greenish-brown with red mottlings, laterally compressed, shallowly emarginate at the base and apex, somewhat constricted at the commissure; ribs filiform, only weakly developed; stylopodium depressed, styles short, c. 0·75 mm. long, widely divergent.

[CPLC]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 1500 - 3800 m.; Andes.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
Preocupación Menor

[UPFC]
Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 1500–3800 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Bogotá DC, Boyacá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Quindío, Risaralda.
Habit
Herb.
Conservation
IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC. National Red List of Colombia (2021): Potential LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, shrubland, native grassland, artificial - terrestrial.

[UPB]
Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016, Instituto Humboldt 2014).

[UPFC]
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, South Carolina, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia

Introduced into:

Angola, Belgium, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malawi, Minnesota, Palestine, Rwanda, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L.f. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 24, 2005 Wood [19739], Bolivia K000036507 No
Ethiopia K000310220 Yes
Bornmüller, J.F.N. [7162], Iran Hydrocotyle natans K000315703 Yes
Davis, P.H. [6423A], Syria Hydrocotyle natans K000315704 Yes

First published in Suppl. Pl.: 177 (1782)

Accepted by

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    ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
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    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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    ColPlantA database
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