Sida pseudocordifolia Hochr.

Small suffrutex or soft-stemmed shrub up to c. 1·25 m tall, covered on stems, petioles, pedicels and calyces with a ± soft stellate or subvelutinous indumentum; stems terete, yellowish-green to fawn-green when young, ultimately olive-brown or deep purplish-brown and glabrous. Leaf-lamina 2-7 x 1.5-6 cm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, often slightly rhomboid, apex usually obtuse or rounded, margin slightly to distinctly crenate or serrate-dentate or doubly serrate, base broadly cuneate, truncate to rounded, upper surface sparsely and shortly appressed-pubescent to almost glabrous, dark green, lower surface paler and densely tomentose, nervation impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole up to 25 mm long, terete; stipules up to 15 mm long, filiform, tomentose. Flowers yellow, in small fascicles or clusters mainly towards the tips of the branches, often in subspicate inflorescences, some solitary in the lower axils; pedicels usually very short but up to 15 mm long in some of the lower solitary flowers. Calyx 5.5-7.5 mm long, cupuliform-campanulate, densely velutinous, lobed to about the middle; lobes triangular, subacute. Petals c. 9 mm long, glabrous. Staminal tube glabrous. Mericarps 8-10, 3-4 mm long, narrowly trapezoid in side view, truncate at the apex, faintly reticulate-veined, ± pubescent in the upper part. Seeds c. 2 x 2 mm, suborbicular-obpyriform, smooth, glabrous except for the area around the hilum.