Sida acuminata DC.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sida acuminata DC.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Densely stellate-pubescent, usually branched, somewhat woody, erect, 5-8 dm. high, branched or sometimes simple. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rather s-hort-petioled, 2-7 cm. long, acute, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, rounded, or subcordate at the base, low crenate-serrate; flowers few or solitary in the axils, and often in small terminal clusters, nearly sessile or flliformpeduneled, the peduncles sometimes 2-3 cm. long; calyx 5-6 mm. long, terete, its 5, broadly ovate, acute teeth somewhat shorter than the tube; petals yellow, 4-5 mm. long; carpels 5-8, stellate-pubescent, scarcely beaked.

  • Distribution

    Roadsides and waste places. Abaco, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat island, Hum Cay, Greal Exuma, Long island. Crooked island, Fortune Island. Acklin's and Mariguana, East Caicos Cuba to Virgin Gorda ami Antigua; Central America. Races differ in the number and size of the flowers. Velvets Sida.

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