Summary.mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:#f8f9fa;padding:5px;font-size:95%;border-spacing:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0;width:100%}.mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr>td,.mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr>th,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr>td,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr>th{padding:4px}.mw-parser-output.fileinfo-paramfield{background:#ccf;text-align:right;padding-right:0.4em;width:15%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table+table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table+div.commons-file-information-table>table{border-top:0;padding-top:0;margin-top:-8px}@media only screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table.fileinfotpl-type-information{border-spacing:0;padding:0;word-break:break-word;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table>tbody,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody{display:block}.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr>td,.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr>th,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr>td,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr>th{padding:0.2em 0.4em;text-align:left;text-align:start}.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output.fileinfotpl-type-information>tbody>tr{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table+table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output.commons-file-information-table+div.commons-file-information-table>table{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output.fileinfo-paramfield{box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 0 100%;width:100%}} Description: Family: Malvaceae Distribution: Native of South America, naturalised Indian continent. Common name: Brazilian Jute. Description: Erect, coarse, annual or perennial herb 1-2 m tall, with densely whitish- or yellowish-stellate hairs.Leaves long-petioled; 2-10 cm long, stipules lanceolate, 5-15 mm long; blades orbicular to ovate, palmately sinuate to 3-, 5-, or 7-lobed, lobes mostly obtuse, crenate or serrate, the base obtuse or truncate; flowers 1.5-2.5cm across,delicate,in axillary, pedunculate, bracteate heads, bracts 1-2 cm long, stipitate and subtended by paired, filiform bracteoles , conduplicate, suborbicular to ovate, obtuse or acute, entire or once or twice dentate, obtuse to cordate at base, prominently veined ; Flowers open in the morning.calyx -5,tubular-campanulate, 4-8 mm long, lobes ovate-lanceolate, white with brownish or reddish nerves; petals yellow, 5, obovate, 10-15 mm long, slightly exceeding staminal column; number of stigmas equal to number of locules in the ovary, mericarps 3-3.5 mm long, muticous, reddish veined, puberulent; seed obovoid-cuneate, about 2.5 mm long, black, whitish-pubescent about hilum. This species is not recorded in the Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana &;A.S Rao. Date: 23 September 2010, 21:54. Source:
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Lalithamba from India.