4998.000 Sida L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs or suffrutices. Leaves (in ours), serrate, crenate-serrate or lobed. Flowers orange, yellow or cream, usually opening in the morning. Epicalyx 0. Fruit of 5 to 12 mericarps, dehiscent at the apex, base or indehiscent, usually acute, beaked or awned, each containing one seed. Note that Malvastrum coromandelianum looks like a species of Sida and grows in similar habitats, but may be easily separated by its 3 linear epicalyx bracts. Similarly, Hibiscus sidiformis, as the name suggests, somewhat resembles a Sida and, indeed, lacks an epicalyx. However, it would be readily separated by the fruit.

Derivation of name: (oddly) from a Greek name for a water-lily.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in tropical and warm zones, but especially America

Zimbabwe: 12 taxa.

Sida cordifolia subsp. maculata

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
acuta Burm.f.N,C,E,SDescription, Image
alba L.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
chrysantha Ulbr.W
cordifolia L. subsp. maculata (Cav.) MaraisN,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
dregei Burtt DavyW,C,E,S
hoepfneri GürkeW,SDescription, Image
ovata Forssk.W,E,SDescription, Image
pilosa Retz.E
pseudocordifolia Hochr.E
rhombifolia L.N,W,C,E
serratifolia Wilczek & SteyaertC,E
urens L.N,C,EDescription

Other sources of information about Sida:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Sida
Flora of Burundi: Sida
Flora of Caprivi: Sida
Flora of Malawi: Sida
Flora of Mozambique: Sida
Flora of Zambia: Sida

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Sida
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Sida
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Sida
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Sida
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Sida
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Sida
JSTOR Plant Science: Sida
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Sida
Plants of the World Online: Sida
Tropicos: Sida
Wikipedia: Sida

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Sida.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=939, retrieved 14 November 2024

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