Sida hirtaLam. [family MALVACEAE], (1783). [type as above]
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Shrubby herb or subshrub up to 2 m tall; all or most parts with sticky yellow to orange basally swollen glandular hairs, also ± sparsely tomentose and often with long simple hairs. Leaves with 2–12 cm long petiole; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 17 x 13 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate to rounded at the apex, with dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils or in narrow panicles; pedicels 1.5–7 cm long. Calyx 9–18 mm long. Petals 15–27 mm long, yellow to orange with dark red to purple base. Staminal column with stellate hairs apically on expanded part and at sinuses between petals, otherwise glabrous. Mericarps 16–24, 8–11 x 5–7 mm, (1–)3-seeded, dorsal corner angled or with a minute tooth. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose, sometimes with simple or stellate hairs on the papillae.
