Family: Malvaceae
Sida filiformis
Citation:
Cunn. in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 361 (1848).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Fine sida.
Description:
Small subshrub to sprawling perennial less than 1 m high, with densely tomentose branches, often brown or brown-tinted; leaves with blade 2-10 times longer than the petiole, narrow-ovate to broad-elliptic, 5-22 x 4-20 mm, rounded to cordate at the base, serrulate to (in larger leaves) serrate, with 4-10 or more teeth/cm, coarsely densely thickly tomentose.
Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, on filiform peduncles 7-37 mm long, sometimes with simple glandular hairs; calyx 3.5-4 mm long, sometimes enlarging to as much as 6 mm long in fruit, tomentose, with lobes broad-triangular, half the length of the calyx, acuminate; corolla 7-9 mm long, yellow.
Schizocarp depressed-ovoid, 5-7 mm diam., deeply grooved between the carpels, softly puberulent, quickly glabrescent, the sides deeply rugose, the central apical region raised, rarely almost flat, the 5-9 mericarps grooved at the apex, reticulate on sides.
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Image source: fig 440h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Grows in a wide range of habitats but especially rocky slopes and recorded in watercourses.
W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: probably in all months but recorded mainly in May and Aug. — Nov. Image: Fig. 440H.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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