Taxon: Sida acuta Burm. f.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• broomweed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• southern sida   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• spiny-head sida   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• huang hua ren   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• herbe à paniers   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• hosoba-kingojika   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• guaxuma   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• relógio-de-vaqueiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• relógio-vassoura   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tupitixa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• vassoura-preta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• vassourinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• babosilla   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• escoba blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• escobilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• escobilla blanca   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• huinar   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• malva colorada   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• malva de Castilla   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia, South Carolina
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Ecuador - Chimborazo, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos Islands, Guayas, Loja, Los Rios, Manabi, Napo, Pastaza, Pichincha; Peru - Cuzco, Huanuco, Junin, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Pasco, Piura, Puno, San Martin, Ucayali

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Congo; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mayotte; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman
  Western Asia: Israel; Jordan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Borssum Waalkes, J. v. 1966. Malesian Malvaceae revised. Blumea 14:186–190.
• Botanical Survey of India. 1978–. Fascicles of flora of India.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
• Danin, A. 2004. Distribution atlas of plants in the Flora Palaestina area.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Fryxell, P. A. 1985. Sidus sidarum: 5. The North and Central American species of Sida. Sida 11:87–88.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 2003–. Flora of Oman.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kearney, T. H. 1954. A tentative key to the North American species of Sida L. Leafl. W. Bot. 7:144.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Krapovickas, A. 2003. Sida sección Distichifolia (Monteiro) Krapov. comb. nov., stat. nov. (Malvaceae-Malveae). Bonplandia 12:87–90.
• Kress, W. J. et al. 2003. A checklist of the trees, shrubs, herbs, and climbers of Myanmar. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 45.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sida acuta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sida acuta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sida acuta.

Check other web resources for Sida acuta Burm. f.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Flower: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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