Perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 1 m tall , covered in star-shaped hairs . Stems erect , slender , much branched , grey-green , with velvety stellate-pubescent . Leaves 1-8 x 1-7 cm , broadly ovate to heart-shaped , obtuse at the apex , cordate at the base , with irregularly denticulate-serrate margins ; petiole as long as the blade ; stipules filiform . Inflorescences solitary , in leaf axils or on short axillary branches , c . 2 . 5 cm across ; pedicel 0 . 5-5 cm , slender , terete . Flowers pale-yellow ; calyx 3-4 mm , 5-lobed , acute ; petals 10-11 mm , obovate , notched at the apex . Fruit mericarps divided into (8-)10(-11) parts , brown , hairy , 3-seeded . Seeds c . 1 . 5 × 1 . 5 mm , yellow , minutely verruculose-punctate . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Abutilon albidum subsp. fruticosum (Guill. & Perr.) Maire
Sida perrottetiana D.Dietr.
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Sweet Indian Mallow
Texas Indian Mallow
Pelotazo
In central desert, the green seeds are edible. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.nparks.gov.sg *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
