Sida procumbens Sw.
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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 - 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.
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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.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|