Sida ciliaris L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial, strigose-pubescent, diffusely branched at the base from a deep woody root, the slender branches prostrate or ascending, 1-3 dm. long. Leaves oblong or elliptic, 0.7-3.5 cm. long, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, mostly obtuse at the base, serrate, mostly above the middle, slender-petioled, usually glabrous above and stellate pubescent beneath; flowers clustered at the ends of the branches, their short peduncles adnate to the petioles of the foliaceous bracts; stipules linear or linear-spatulate, long-ciliate, about as long as the petioles; calyx hirsute, its triangular acute lobes about as long as the nearly terete tube; petals red, yellow or purplish, blotched at the base, 6-12 mm. long; carpels 5-8, wrinkled or tubercled, 2-beaked.
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Distribution
Rocky soils and cultivated grounds. Great Sturrup Cay to New Providence, Eleuthera, Atwood's, Fortune Island, East Caicos, and Inagua : Florida ; West Indies; tropical continental America. Fringed Sida.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|