Sida

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Sida in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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 The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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