Golden sida (Sida javensis)

Golden sida (Sida javensis) is a plant species in the Malvaceae, annual herbaceous plant, grows flat on the ground, up to 70 cm long, rooted in nodes, green stems, branched, grows on forest floor, agricultural land and roadside.

S. javensis has leaves with long stalks, green and seated alternately. Strands ovate to heart-shaped, green, about 3 cm long, split at base, sharp to rounded ends and serrated edges.



Disc-shaped flowers, yellow, solitary and formed in the leaf axils. Round fruit. This species is similar to Sida cordata, differences found in this species are the much sparser, not viscid, indumentum on the stems, stems that root adventitiously at the nodes, the glabrous filament tube and the 2-awned mericarps.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Malvoideae
Tribe: Malveae
Genus: Sida L. in Sp. Pl.: 683 (1753)
Species: Sida javensis Cav. in Diss. 1: 10 (1785)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Sida pilosa Retz. in Observ. Bot. 2: 23 (1781)

PUBLICATIONS

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VERNACULAR NAME

English: Golden sida, Java golden flower noon, Java golden flower, Java golden sida
Indonesian: Sida Jawa
Java: Kencono rembet

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