Flora of North America species comparison

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Sidastrum

sandmallow
Habit Shrubs [subshrubs].
Stems

erect, ± stellate-hairy, not viscid.
Leaves

spirally arranged, petiolate or subsessile;

stipules persistent, subulate;

blade ovate or lanceolate [elliptic], not dissected or parted, base truncate or subcordate [rounded], margins dentate [serrate or crenate], surfaces stellate-hairy.
Inflorescences

terminal panicles [solitary flowers or racemes];

involucel absent.
Flowers

calyx not accrescent, not inflated, not completely enclosing fruit, lobes cupuliform, unribbed;

corolla reflexed [rotate], purple [white, yellow, or orange];

staminal column ± included;

style 5[–10]-branched;

stigmas capitate.
Fruits

schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate to conic, not indurate, often stellate-hairy;

mericarps 5[–10], 1-celled, without dorsal spurs or endoglossum, smooth or weakly reticulate, lateral walls firm, not evanescent, essentially indehiscent.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, glabrous [subglabrous, sparsely hairy].
x

= 16.

Sidastrum
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa; not in saline habitats
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 7 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 356. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
S. paniculatum
Name authority Baker f.: J. Bot. 30: 137. (1892)
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