Sida procumbens Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sida procumbens Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - Branched at the base, the branches slender, prostrate or nearly so, 1-6 dm long, densely puberulent, glabrate or pilose. Leaves ovate or ovate-orbicular, 1-2.5 cm. long, slender-petioled, crenate, obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, densely puberulent on both sides; peduncles axillary, solitary, about a- long as the leaves or shorter, or longer, filiform, sometimes pilose; calyx about 4 mm. long, puberulent or pilose, its 5 ovate acuminate lobes somewhat shorter than the angled tube; petals pale yellow or white, 4-6 mm. long; carpels mostly 5, reticulate, 2-beaked, about 2 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Fields, pastures and waste places. New Providence, Eleuthera, Long Island, Fortune Island, South Caicos, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. Cheeping Sida.

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