Centella asiatica

Taxonomy ID: 48106 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid48106)

current name

Centella asiatica  (L.) Urb., 1879

basionym:

Hydrocotyle asiatica  L., 1753

Genbank common name: Asiatic pennywort
NCBI BLAST name: eudicots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

common name(s)

gotu kola, sheep-rot, ji xue cao

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; asterids; campanulids; Apiales; Apiineae; Apiaceae; Mackinlayoideae; Centella

Comments and References:

image:Centella asiatica Image by Shahidul Hasan Roman from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

Plunkett GM et al. 2004a Plunkett GM, Wen J and Lowry PP II. 2004. Infrafamilial classifications and characters in Araliaceae: Insights from the phylogenetic analysis of nuclear (ITS) and plastid (trnL-trnF) sequence data. Plant Systematics and Evolution 245: 1-39.

Flora of China - Apiaceae Menglan She, Fading Pu, Zehui Pan, Mark Watson, John F. M. Cannon, Ingrid Holmes-Smith, Eugene V. Kljuykov, Loy R. Phillippe & Michael G. Pimenov. Apiaceae Lindley. In Wu, Z. Y., P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong, eds. 2005. Flora of China. Vol. 14 (Apiaceae through Ericaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

TROPICOS (Jan 30, 2012) Name verified on 30 January 2012 in: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, 2008 - 4344 Shaw Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A. on line at: http://www.tropicos.org/