Sida
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Sida (from the old Greek name for Nymphaea alba; given without explanation by Linnaeus). Malvaceae. Herbs or shrubs with the indumentum frequently soft or tomentose, adapted to the warm- or coolhouse or some of them hardy; one species, S. rhombifolia, now cultivated in India for its fiber. Leaves simple or lobed, usually serrate or dentate: fls. sessile or pedunculate, solitary or glomerate, axillary or in terminal racemose spikes or heads, various, colored and sometimes showy, often small, yellow or whitish; calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft; staminal column divided at the top into numerous filaments: carpels 5 or more, when ripe separating from the axis, generally 2-awned at the summit; seed 1 to a carpel and pendulous.—About 120 species, widely distributed in Afr., Asia, Austral., and N. and S. Amer. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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