Sida alnifolia- Kurunthotti-plant

Description

 Subshrubs to 40 cm tall, strongly branched. Leaves simple, alternate, 1-3 x 0.8-2.5 cm, obovate to elliptic-lanceolate, apex retuse, emarginate, rounded or subacute, base obtuse or rounded, margins irregularly serrate-dentate or crenate to the distal half, entire towards the proximal half, upper surface sparsely pubescent, lower surface densely greyish tomentose; petiole to 4 mm long, stellate-pubescent; stipules c. 3 mm long, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 3-4 mm long in flowers, to 2.5 cm in fruits, jointed at about the middle. Calyx 5-6 mm long, c. 6 mm across, pubescent without, 5-lobed; lobes c. 2 mm long, ovate to triangular. Petals yellow, 6-7 x 5-6 mm, obliquely obovate. Staminal column to 3 mm long, antheriferous at apex. Ovary c. 1.5 mm across, depressed globose; styles 7-10; stigma capitate, creamy-yellow. Schizocarp to 4 mm long; mericarps 7-10, included in the calyx, with a pair of short obtuse mucro at apex; seeds c. 2 mm long, black.