Sida ovata Forsk.

In Pakistan it is common in Sindh and Punjab.

Erect, perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall, all parts stellate pubescent. Leaves with 3-7 mm long, filiform or linear stipule, and 0.5-1.5 cm long petiole; blade 2-5 cm long, 1-4 cm broad, ovate-oblong, coarsely serrate-crenate, entire towards the base, obtuse or somewhat truncate, stellate pubescent on both sides, darker above, cinereous below, penninerved, at base mostly 5 nerved. Flowers white, axillary, solitary or paired; pedicel 5-8 mm, in fruit up to 10 mm, rarely up to 15 mm long, with or without articulation at the top. Calyx 5 lobed, c.4 mm across, 4.6 mm long, slightly angular; lobes triangular-deltoid, acuminate, 2.3 mm long, 3-4 mm broad. Corolla 1-1.5 cm across; petals 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, oblique, unguiculate, claw hairy. Staminal tube up to 3 mm long, hairy. Carpels 7-8; locule, style branches and stigmas as many as carpels. Fruit depressed globose, 3-5 mm in diameter, incompletely enclosed by calyx; mericarps 2-3 mm long, radially 2-2.5 mm broad, dorsally 1-1.5 mm broad, reticulate towards the margin, not so towards the centre, glabrous except awns, indehiscent; awns 2,0.5 mm long, connivent, inflexed, Seeds 1.5-2 mm long, somewhat reniform, slightly longitudinally grooved on the dorsal surface, brown to dark brown.

Distribution: In drier parts of Africa, Arabia, India, Pakistan and Persia.

Sida ovata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cẩm quỳ. Loài này được Forssk. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1775.