Flora of North America species comparison

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Sida elliottii

Elliott's fanpetals, Elliott's sida
Habit Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, 0.5–1 m, usually little-branched from base.
Stems

erect, puberulent to glabrate.
Leaves

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.
Inflorescences

axillary solitary flowers, scattered along stem, little, if at all, apically congested.
Pedicels

slender, 0.5–4 cm, longer than calyx.
Flowers

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.
Schizocarps

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.

Sida elliottii
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MO; MS; NC; SC; TN; TX; VA; e Mexico; s Mexico; Central America (Guatemala)
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
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
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 314.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sida
Sibling taxa
S. abutilifolia, S. antillensis, S. ciliaris, S. cordifolia, S. glabra, S. hermaphrodita, S. lindheimeri, S. littoralis, S. longipes, S. neomexicana, S. planicaulis, S. rhombifolia, S. rubromarginata, S. santaremensis, S. spinosa, S. tragiifolia, S. ulmifolia, S. urens
Subordinate taxa
S. elliottii var. elliottii, S. elliottii var. parviflora
Synonyms S. gracilis
Name authority Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 231. (1838)
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