Sida tiagii Bhandari in Ann. Arid Zone 16: 455. 1977. S. pakistanica S. Abedin in Pakistan J. Bot. 11: 55. 1979.

Perennial, suberect herbs, up to 40 cm high, lower branches prostrate, stellate-pubescent. Leaves 1.5 - 4.5 x 1 - 3 cm, ovate, ovate-oblong to obovate, rounded at base, obtuse at apex, crenate-serrate; petioles 1 - 1.5 cm long; stipules 0.5 - 1 cm long, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 0.2 - 1 cm long, ca 2 cm long in fruit, jointed above middle. Calyx 6 - 10 mm across, cyathiform, lobes free up to the middle, 8 - 9 x 5 - 7 mm, deltoid or triangular, stellate-pubescent, accrescent in fruit. Corolla pale yellow, ca 1.8 cm across; petals 8 - 12 x 5 - 7 mm, obliquely obovate. Staminal column hirsute. Schizocarps ca 9 mm across, pentangular-globose, enclosed within calyx; mericarps 7 - 8, ca 3 x 2 mm (excluding awns), radially reticulate, dorsally strongly rugose, studded with minute glandular hairs, apical awns 2, ca 1 mm long, hairy with 2 outgrowths just below awns. Seeds ca 2 mm long, reniform, glabrous except the stellate-hairy hilum, blackish.

Fl. & Fr. Sept. - Nov.

Distrib. India: Rajasthan.

Pakistan.

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