Sida acuta Burm. f.
synonym | Sida acuta var. intermedia S.Y. Hu |
synonym | Sida arrudiana Monteiro |
synonym | Sida artensis Montrouz. ex Guillaumin & Beauvis. |
synonym | Sida balbisiana DC. |
synonym | Sida berlandieri Turcz. |
synonym | Sida berteriana Spreng. |
synonym | Sida betulina Lag. ex Spreng. |
synonym | Sida brachypetala DC. |
synonym | Sida bradei Ulbr. |
synonym | Sida brasila Schrank ex Link |
synonym | Sida capensis Cav. |
synonym | Sida carpinifolia L.f. |
synonym | Sida commixta Gand. |
synonym | Sida disticha Sessé & Moc. |
synonym | Sida foliosa Splitg. ex de Vriese |
synonym | Sida frutescens Cav. |
synonym | Sida garckeana Polak. |
synonym | Sida glabra Nutt. |
synonym | Sida jamaicensis Vell. |
synonym | Sida lancea Gand. |
synonym | Sida lanceolata Retz. |
synonym | Sida martinicensis Gand. |
synonym | Sida obtusa A.Rich. |
synonym | Sida orientalis DC. |
synonym | Sida ovata G. Don |
synonym | Sida planicaulis DC. |
synonym | Sida prostrata G. Don |
synonym | Sida repanda Roth |
synonym | Sida rugosa Thunn. |
synonym | Sida schrankii DC. |
synonym | Sida scoparia Lour. |
synonym | Sida spiraeifolia Willd. |
synonym | Sida stauntoniana DC. |
synonym | Sida trivialis Macfad. |
synonym | Sida vogelii Hook. |
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Habit
Erect or ascending annual or perennial herb or subshrub
Family Description
Herbs,shrubs,trees or climber; indumentum usually stellate; stems often fibrous. Leaves alternate, simple or lobed, usually palmately 3-7-veined from base, sometimes pinnately veined; stipulate. Monoecious, rarely dioecious; flowers axillary, solitary, or in 2-many-flowered, terminalor axillary racemes or panicles, bisexual, rarely unisexual, actinomorphic; usually subtended by an epicalyx of 3-many, free or connate, segments. Calyx of 4(-5)+/-connate sepals;epicalyx present or absent.Petals 5,free, adnate to base of staminal column.Stamens with filaments united around style into staminal column, bearing pollen throughout or divided at apex into numerous filaments or 5-many-branches.Ovary superior,2-many-celled;style simple or 2-many branched.Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent,rarely indehiscent capsule, or schizocarpic, consisting of 5-many mericarps around a central columella.
Genus Description
Annual or perinnial herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple, pinnately or palmately veined; stipules persistent. Flowers in 1-several-flowered axillary fasciles, or crowded at the end of branches. Pedicels jointed. Epicalyx absent. Sepals 5, connate to middle, lobes triangular, acuminate. Petals 5, not clawed. Staminal column 1.5-3mm, divided at apex into numerous as cells; stigmas capitate. Fruit subglobose, of 5-12, 1-seeded mericarps, awnless or with 2 awns, dehiscent at apex or by disintegration of base.
Species description
Erect or ascending annual or perennial herb or subshrub, 0.5-1m, branched throughout, shoots thinly stellate-pubescent becoming glabrous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 1-5(-8)x0.4-1.5(-2)cm, acute, base cuneate, rarely rounded, margin serrate, glabrescent, petiole 3-4mm; stipules of each pair unequal, filiform to linear-lanceolate, 3-10mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-5 flowered; pedicels 2-3mm. Calyx 5-8mm. Petals yellow, 8-10(-12)mm. Style branches 5-10. Mericarps 5-8(-10), c 2.5mm, reticulate; awms c 1mm, glabrous or with ascendin hairs.
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Malvales |
Family | Malvaceae |
Genus | Sida |
Species | Sida acuta Burm. f. |