Perennial shrub or subshrub ; up to 1 m tall , usually very sticky slightly aromatic . Stems erect with glandular and eglandular hairs ; hairs dense and patent . Leaves alternate , simple , 2 . 5-3 x 2 . 0-3 cm , densely glandular and stellate-hairy , apex acute , base cordate , margin deeply serrate to crenulate ; petiole as long as the blade ; stipules linear-lanceolate . Inflorescences solitary , in leaf axils , ± 2 . 5 cm across ; pedicel 1-3 cm , elongating in fruit . Flowers orange-yellow with a purple center , bisexual , 3-3 . 5 cm across ; calyx 6-9 mm , 5-lobed , lobes acute ; corolla 11-13 mm , obovate ; staminal column 5–7 mm long with transparent stellate hairs , the arms swollen at base ; styles deep crimson . Fruit mericarps , 20-27 , stellate-hairy , 2-3-seeded . Seeds 2 . 5 mm long and wide , many , irregularly rounded cordate , finely papillate and sometimes with simple or stellate hairs . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Abutilon graveolens var. hirtum (Lam.) Mast.
Abutilon indicum var. hirtum (Lam.) Griseb.
Sida hirta Lam.
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Hairy Indian Mallow
Indian Mallow
Not used traditionally.
*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 *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
