Annual herb ; up to 60 cm high . Stems erect to decumbent , branched , slender , yellow-green , with stellate and simple hairs . Leaves 1-5 cm long and broad , ovate to lanceolate , apex acuminate , base rounded to cordate , margins crenate to dentate petiole 1-3 cm ; stipules filiform , strigose . Inflorescences solitary , in the axils of the leaves ; pedicel 1-3 cm , stellate-hairy . Flowers pale yellow , 7-8 mmm across ; epicalyx absent ; calyx 4-5 mm , fused below , lobes acuminate , partially enclosing the capsule ; corolla ± 10 mm , obovate . Fruit capsule , 3-4 mm in diameter , depressed globose , beaked at the top ; mericarps 5 , membranous , dehiscent , 1-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lamarkia morifolia Medik.
Melochia cordata Burm.f.
Sida radicans Cav.
No data
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Long-stalk Sida
Heart-Leaf Sida
Country-mallow
Flannelweed
Heartleaf Fanpetals
Bala
Malva Branca
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 *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
