Sida (sect. Sidae)
Creators: name: Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh
name: Shailajakumari, Sreedharan
name: Sreekala, Appukuttan Kamalabhai
name: Bagavathi, Parthipan
name: Prakashkumar, Raveendranpillai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Sida

description: Key to the species of Sida sect. Sidae
1. Leaves distichous...................................................................................................................................................................... S.acuta
- Leaves not distichous .........................................................................................................................................................................2
2. Styles 5 ............................................................................................................................................................................ S.sivarajanii
- Styles 6–10 .........................................................................................................................................................................................3
3. Mericarp indehiscent ..........................................................................................................................................................................4
- Mericarp dehiscent at apex.................................................................................................................................................................6
4. Fruiting pedicels 2.0–3.0 cm long ......................................................................................................................................................5
- Fruiting pedicels 0.3–0.7 cm long ............................................................................................................................................ S. ovata
5. Awns exceeding the calyx, pubescent ................................................................................................................................ S.unicornis
- Awns completely included in the calyx, glabrous ......................................................................................................... S.rhomboidea
6. Pedicels not jointed.............................................................................................................................................................................7
- Pedicels jointed...................................................................................................................................................................................9
7. Leaves concolorous ............................................................................................................................................................. S.scabrida
- Leaves not concolorous ......................................................................................................................................................................8
8. Apex of mericarp beaked with a single muticous process, glabrous.............................................................................. S.rhombifolia
- Apex of mericarp with a pair of linear divergent awns, stellately hairy ......................................................................... S. keralensis
9. Leaves concolorous ...................................................................................................................................................... S.pradeepiana
- Leaves not conclorous ......................................................................................................................................................................10
10. Leaves near to the base of the stem always obovate, mericarp with a pair of short, stellately hairy mucro at apex .......... S.alnifolia
- Leaves otherwise, mericarp with a pair of short divergent glabrous awns...................................................................... S.subcordata
description: Published as part of Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh, Shailajakumari, Sreedharan, Sreekala, Appukuttan Kamalabhai, Bagavathi, Parthipan & Prakashkumar, Raveendranpillai, 2021, Sida keralensis (Malvaceae): a new species from Kerala, India, pp. 289-294 in Phytotaxa 508 (3) on page 293, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5425942