Sida ciliaris
bract fanpetals, bract or fringe or salmon sida, bract sida, huinar
procumbent, branched from base, with appressed, stellate, usually 4-rayed hairs.
usually crowded at stem apex;
stipules partially adnate to petiole, 1-veined, linear to oblanceolate, 4–12 mm, usually longer than petiole;
petiole 2–10 mm, 1/4–1/2 length of blade, with appressed stellate hairs;
blade narrowly elliptic, 1–2 cm, usually 2–3 times longer than wide, base truncate to subcordate, margins dentate apically, entire basally, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces stellate-hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially.
terminal, subsessile, usually 1–10-flowered, flowers crowded at branch apices because of shortening of internodes, obscurely solitary, axillary.
adnate to petiole of leaflike bract, 0.1–0.4 cm, shorter than calyx.
calyx obscurely angulate, 4–6 mm, hirsute, lobes ovate;
petals usually salmon-pink, red-orange, sometimes yellowish, 5–11 mm;
staminal column hairy;
style 5–8-branched.
conic, 5–6 mm diam., subglabrous;
mericarps 5–8, prominently muricate, otherwise glabrous.
= 16.
Sida ciliaris
Sida ciliaris is found in Broward and Miami-Dade counties and the Florida Keys and in central and southern Texas. The stems can be procumbent but not distinctly mat-forming, and they are often ascending, not flexible, and tufted. The flowers are sometimes described as being salmon-colored; that feature, the congested terminal leaves and flowers, and the adnate stipules are quite distinctive.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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