Sida ciliaris
Sida elliottii
bract fanpetals, bract or fringe or salmon sida, bract sida, huinar
Elliott's fanpetals, Elliott's sida
erect, puberulent to glabrate.
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.
stipules free from petiole, 1-veined, subulate, 5–8 mm, subequal to petiole;
petiole 2–9 mm, much shorter than blade, minutely puberulent to glabrate;
blade narrowly linear to narrowly elliptic, 2–8 cm, 4–20 times longer than wide, base truncate, margins dentate to base, apex acute, surfaces minutely hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially.
terminal, subsessile, usually 1–10-flowered, flowers crowded at branch apices because of shortening of internodes, obscurely solitary, axillary.
axillary solitary flowers, scattered along stem, little, if at all, apically congested.
adnate to petiole of leaflike bract, 0.1–0.4 cm, shorter than calyx.
slender, 0.5–4 cm, longer 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.
calyx ribbed, 6–9 mm, basally hairy, lobes ovate;
petals yellow-orange, 12–15 mm;
staminal column sparsely and minutely hairy;
style 8–11-branched.
conic, 5–6 mm diam., subglabrous;
mericarps 5–8, prominently muricate, otherwise glabrous.
oblate, 6–8 mm diam., sparsely hairy apically, otherwise glabrous;
mericarps 8–11, 3 mm, laterally reticulate, apex blunt to spinose, spines 0.2–1 mm.
= 16.
Sida ciliaris
Sida elliottii
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.)
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Plants 0.5–1 m; mericarp spines to 1 mm. | var. elliottii |
1. Plants to 0.5 m; mericarp spines 0.2–0.7 mm. | var. parviflora |
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