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Sida fryxellii
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Sida fryxellii Sivar. & Pradeep, Kew Bull. 45: 725. 1990 & Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 259. 1996. 1996; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 259. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 33. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 89. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 129. 2009.
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Description:
Erect branched undershrubs to 2.5 m tall; stem green, densely stellate-pubescent with occasional simple hairs. Leaves 3-5 x 3.5-7 cm, dimorphic, early ones obovate-orbicular, obtuse, retuse or emarginate at apex, later ones ovate or elliptic, obtuse, rounded or acute at base, all crenate-serrate on margin, 3-5-nerved from base, sparsely pubescent below; petiole to 4 cm long; stipules to 1.5 cm long, linear, cauducous. Flowers solitary in the axils of upper leaves, sometimes in apparent terminal racemes due to reduction of distal leaves; pedicel to 1.5 cm long, articulated, densely stellate-hairy. Calyx 5-8 mm across, campanulate, 5-lobed with 10 prominent nerves, stellate-pubescent without and sparsely within; lobes triangular. Corolla 1-1.5 cm across, yellow; petals to 8 mm long, obliquely obovate, truncate or retuse at apex. Staminal column c. 3 mm long, stellate-hairy; antheriferous at apex. Ovary subglobose, stellate-hairy; styles 8-10; stigma capitate, purplish. Mericarps 8-10, trigonous, reticulate, 2-awned. Seeds brownish to black.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Ernakulam, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along roadsides and waste places in the plains
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Distribution:
South-west Peninsular India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Poonkavanam, Sabarimala, Alleppey town, Aroor
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