Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

Complete Taxonomic details of Species: Sida acuta Burm.f.

Family: Malvaceae Genus: Sida Species: Sida acuta Burm.f.( बरिआरा )

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Synonym Sida carpinifolia L.f., Sida balbisiana DC., Sida frutescens Cav. Flower Color Yellow - Orange
Common Name Bariara Flower Type Solitary
English / Trade Name Common wire weed, Morning mallow, Common Fanpetals Flowering Period Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name Bariara Fruiting Period Jan-March
Altitude Up to 1500 m Fruit Type Follicle
Habit Shrub Fruit Details Fruits of 6 mericarps, trigonous, 2-awned, about 1.5 mm long, reticulately striate, 1-seeded; seeds hairy on hilum, dark-brown.
Habitat Common; along roadsides, waste places, scrub jungles, crop fields. Bark Type Smooth
Distribution Outer sub Himalayan tracts and warmer parts of India; pantropical. Bark Details The stems are fibrous to almost woody, with a tough stringy bark.
Distribution in Haryana Origin Native
    Leaf Type Simple
    Leaf Arrangement Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
    Leaf Shape Lence shaped
Description of Species Annual herbs or undershrubs, up to 1.5 m high, stem woody at base. Leaves lanceolate to linear, acute, rounded at base, coarsely serrate, 3-nerved at base, sparsely hairy or glabrescent; petioles 2-5 mm long; stipules one lanceolate, other filiform or linear. Flowers pedicel 4-10 mm long, jointed in the middle. Calyx cyathiform, membranous, somewhat angular, 5-fid. Corolla light yellow; petals almost equal to sepals, obovate. Staminal column about 4 mm long, with hairs. Fruits of 6 mericarps, trigonous, 2-awned, about 1.5 mm long, reticulately striate, 1-seeded; seeds hairy on hilum, dark-brown. Leaf Details Leaves lanceolate to linear, acute, rounded at base, coarsely serrate, 3-nerved at base, sparsely hairy or glabrescent; petioles 2-5 mm long; stipules one lanceolate, other filiform or linear.
 

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