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Species
Sida acuta Burman f.
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Nile region (Cairo).
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Root contains asparagine. Leaf contains mucilage and saponins. The alkaloid cryptolepine shows hypotensive and antimicrobial action.
Pantropical Weed.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 8
Species With Barcodes: 1
A pantropical weed.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
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Flower
In axillary, solitary, sometime clustered into lax racemes; pale yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A schizocarp, enclosed in the calyx, margin at apex toothed; mericarps 6, 4-hedral with 2 awns; seeds 3-gonous. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Leaves 3-5-nerved from base. Stipules at the same node unequal. Awns of mericarp glabrous.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-spiral
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Oblong-lanceolate or elliptic
Leaf Apex
Acuminate
Leaf Base
Obtuse
Leaf Margin
Serrate
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
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Subshrubs or herbs erect, 1-2 m tall. Branchlets pilose or subglabrous. Leaves ± distichous; stipules filiform, 4-6 mm, often longer than petiole, usually persistent; petiole 4-6 mm, sparsely pilose; leaf blade ovate, oblong, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 2-5 × 0.4-1 cm, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate pilose, rarely with simple hairs adaxially, base obtuse, margin dentate, sometimes partly entire toward its base, apex acute or acuminate. Flowers solitary or paired, axillary, sometimes congested at stem apex. Pedicel 4-12 mm, pilose, articulate at middle. Calyx shallowly cup-shaped, connate in basal 1/2, ca. 6 mm, mostly glabrous, margins often ciliate, lobes 5, caudate. Corolla yellow, less often white or yellow-orange, 8-10 mm in diam.; petals obovate, 6-7 mm, ciliate, base attenuate, apex rounded. Filament tube ca. 4 mm, sparsely hirsute. Schizocarp nearly globose; mericarps (4-)6(-9), segmentiform-tetrahedral, ca. 3.5 mm, basally transversely ridged, side walls reticulate-veined, glabrous, apex beaked, ± extending into 2 awns, apically dehiscent. Seed trigonous, ca. 2 mm, glabrous except around hilum. Fl. winter-spring.
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Whole plant: Decoction for febrifuge. Ground and mixed with soft grease and sugar for a poultice applied to soften abscesses and release pus. Leaf: Decoction to bathe wounds; in a preparation for dysentery; infusion is diuretic; cataplasm for headache. Juice mixed with vinegar for an anti-inflammatory and digestive remedy. Macerated in water for hair conditioner and as a shampoo for flaky skin.