Annual herb ; up to 80 cm high . Stems erect , stellate-hairy . Leaves alternate , simple , 10-30 x 3-22 mm , ovate to lanceolate , apex obtuse or acute , base rounded , margin crenate to serrate ; petiole 10-30 mm ; stipules filiform . Inflorescences solitary , in the axils of the leaves ; pedicel 2-5 mm , elongating in fruit . Flowers white , bisexual ; epicalyx absent ; calyx 4-5 mm , fused below , lobes triangular , acute ; corolla exceeding the calyx , obovate , hairy ; staminal column shorter than petals , glabrous or hairy ; anthers basifixed , towards apex ; ovary 5-14 carpellate ; ovules 1 per locule ; style 1 per carpel ; stigma capitate . Fruit capsule , depressed globose , pubescent above ; mericarps 5 , trigonous , membranous , with 2 awns at the apex , dehiscent . Seeds 1-1 . 5 mm long , 1 in each mericarp , ovoid to reniform , glabrous or minutely hairy , brownish black . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Malva spinosa (L.) E.H.L.Krause
Malvinda spinosa (L.) Medik.
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Prickly Sida
prickly Fanpetals
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
