• Family : MALVACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Malvaceae
• Species : Sida cordata
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sida cordata (Burm.f.) Borssum
• Common name : Heart-leaved Sida
• Vernacular name : Nagabala, Bhoomibala (San.); Bananiyar (Hin.); Bekkinatale gida (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : KFP 2762, KFP 5813
• Key identification features : A much-branched herb. Leaves are simple, ovate-cordate, serrate with stellate hairs. Flowers are about a cm across with yellow petals. Ovary is 5-carpellate, sparsely hairy at the apex, beakshort, 2-dentate. Mericarps are 5-seeded, glabrous and grey in colour.
• Habit : Climbing Shrub
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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