Soft-wooded shrub ; up to 1 m tall . Stems erect , stoutish , often purplish , tough when young , much branched , covered with soft white pubescence . Leaves 4-12 x 3-9 cm , stellate-pubescent , apex acuminate , base cordate , margins slightly dentate , the upper surface dark green , usually smooth , the lower surface grey-green with distinct and prominent venation ; petiole up to c . 18 cm . long , terete , sometimes longitudinally sulcate . Inflorescences solitary , axillary on main branches and on short axillary shoots ; pedicels often exceeding the petioles . Flowers yellow or orange ; calyx campanulate to cupular , 10–18 mm long ; petals 14–20 mm long , yellow , sometimes reddish at the base inside and/or with reddish veins in the basal portion ; staminal tube stellate-hairy . Fruit mericarps , more than 20 , spreading stellately , densely pilose when young , but almost glabrous at maturity , black when dry , 2-3-seeded . Seeds papillose-verruculose . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Sida mauritiana Jacq.
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Country Mallow
African Mallow
Thutt
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 *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
