Dorstenia contrajerva
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Stem (partly) subterraneous, 3-14 mm thick. Leaves rosulate; stipules triangular to ovate, 0.2-0.6 cm long; petiole 3-20 cm long; blade chartaceous, broadly ovate to cordiform to subhastate, 4-25 x 3.5-30 cm, entire or pinnately to subpalmately or subpedately incised, apex acute, base cordate to acute, margin crenate-dentate to subentire, usually scabrous, hirtellous to strig(ill)ose above, puberulous on the veins beneath; secondary veins 3-7 pairs. Inflorescences green or with a purplish margin; peduncle 5-30 cm long; receptacle discoid, quadrangular to more or less irregularly lobed, (0.5-)1.5-2 cm in diam.Endocarp body tuberculate.