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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. |
Species | FZ divisions | Content |
acuta Burm.f. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
alba L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
chrysantha Ulbr. | W | |
cordifolia L. subsp. maculata (Cav.) Marais | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
dregei Burtt Davy | W,C,E,S | |
hoepfneri Gürke | W,S | Description, Image |
ovata Forssk. | W,E,S | Description, Image |
pilosa Retz. | E | |
pseudocordifolia Hochr. | E | |
rhombifolia L. | N,W,C,E | |
serratifolia Wilczek & Steyaert | C,E | |
urens L. | N,C,E | Description |
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