Sida ovata
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By road from Main Camp to Sinamatella, Hwange NP
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Main Camp to Sinamatella, Hwange NP
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Sida grewioides Guill. & Perr. |
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Suberect suffrutex up to c. 50 cm tall, densely grey-green hairy. Stems wiry, terete to somewhat angled when young, becoming woody and hairless when older. Leaves elliptic, oblong, ovate to somwhat obovate, 10-35 mm long; apex obtuse to rounded; base cuneate to rounded, grey-green hairy on both surfaces; margin coarsely serrate-crenate; petiole 2-10 mm, hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary or occasionally 2-3 together. Calyx c. 6 mm long, 10 ribbed, hairy, lobed to the middle; petals only slightly longer than calyx, yellow to orange-yellow. Mericarps 7-8, c. 4 mm long, birostrate. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | ovata: ovate or egg-shaped |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Drier parts of Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Namibia and Northern South Africa. Also on Socotra and the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 479 - 480. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 61. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 159. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 85. |
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