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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH019 : Sida alba L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 38  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Sida L. - fanpetals
Species : Sida alba L.
Plant Location in Melghat : Open grasslands  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Malvaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Sida alnifolia var. obovata sensu Hu


Description : Erect undershrub, stellate pubescent. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 1-2 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad; stipule filiform, c. 5 mm long; petiole 5-10 mm long. Flowers usually solitary, sometimes paired, pedicel 5-6 mm, in fruit 1-2 cm long. Calyx 5 lobed, 4-6 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long 1-2 mm broad, triangular, acute-acuminate. Corolla yellow, slightly longer than calyx. Fruit depressed globose, pubescent above; mericarps same as in Sida yunnanensis Hu.
 
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Reference : ~ Dinda B, Das N, Dinda S, Dinda M and SilSharma I; "The genus Sida L. - A traditional medicine: Its ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological data for commercial exploitation in herbal drugs industry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 176: 135-76 PMID : 26497766

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :