Sida cordata-Vallikurunthotti, Palkurunthotti-plant

Description

Prostrate herbs; branches slender, trailing; stem, petioles and pedicels pubescent with minute stellate hairs intermingled with simple hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, 2-5.5 x 1.5-4.5 cm, broadly ovate or orbicular, apex acute to acuminate, base cordate, margins serrate-crenate; basally 5-7-nerved, stellate-tomentose on both sides; petioles to 3 cm long; stipules 1-2 mm long, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels to 2 cm long, filiform, articulated above the middle. Calyx c. 5 mm long, campanulate, divided to the middle, stellate-tomentose without; lobes 5, triangular. Petals to 6 x 5 mm, obovate, apex rounded or slightly emarginate. Staminal column c. 2 mm long; anthers numerous, yellow. Ovary c. 2 mm across, subglobose; styles 5; stigmas 5, globose, yellowish. Schizocarp to 2.5 mm long; mericarps 5, to 3 x 2 mm, trigonous with rounded angles, apex shortly 2-beaked, completely enclosed in accrescent calyx; seeds c. 2 mm long, reniform, brownish-black.