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Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lam.

Synonym	:	Hydrocotyle americana var. monticola (Hook. f.) Hiern
Family	:	Araliaceae
Local name	:	English  Lawn pennywort
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Throughout the year
Habitat	:	Marshy areas in grasslands
Uses	:	is used to treat asthma in areas of Nepal. Bengali villagers use the entire plant to help heal bone fractures. The plant extract has also been used to treat edema, fever, throat pain, psoriasis, and the hepatitis B virus.
Key Botanical Characters: Slender creeping herbs, rooting at nodes, glabrous. Leaves 7-9 lobed, lobes crenate, villous beneath. Umbels peduncled, solitary; peduncles 1-2 cm long. Flowers greenish-yellow, densely packed; petals oblong, greenish. Fruit mericarps hemispherical, compressed, muricate.