Citation: F. Muell. ex J.H. Willis, Muelleria 1:131 (1967).

Synonymy: ?S. sp.D A. Mitch. in Jessop, Fl. cent. Aust. 218, ?partly; S. virgata sensu J. Black, Fl. S.Aust. 560 (1952), auct. non Hook., nom. illegit., non Cav. , Sida sp. D

Common name: Sand sida.

Description:
Sprawling shrub to c. 80 cm high, densely persistently smoothly blue-grey- to green-grey-tomentose, the branches sometimes brown or brown-tinted; leaf blades much longer than the petiole, narrow-ovate to narrow-oblong, 7-53 x 2-11 mm, obtuse to rounded at the base, bluntly serrate to serrulate with c. 8-10 teeth/cm, thinly persistently pubescent.

Flowers solitary, on peduncles 8-20 mm long or in apparent racemes on a rhachis (or short shoot with caducous leaves) 5-30 mm long with spaced single flowers subtended by stipules 0.5-1.5 mm long; calyx 3-4.5 mm long, hardly elongating in fruit, the lobes about half its length, acute to shortly acuminate; corolla 4-5 mm long, yellow.

schizocarp depressed-ovoid-pyriform, 4-4.5 mm diam., deeply grooved between the carpels, glabrous or puberulent and quickly glabrescent, the sides rugose, central apical region raised, the 5 mericarps grooved at the apex, reticulate on the sides.

	Sida ammophila leaf, fruit and mericarp.
Image source: fig 440a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 488.

Distribution:  Especially common close to temporary water, but also recorded on gibbers, dunes, limestone and elsewhere. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: probably in all months.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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