Flower and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Lockhart-Urana Road SW of Wagga, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting body and back of leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Reids Flat Road near Cowra, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Corrugated Sida, Variable Sida

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Perennial forb, prostrate to sprawling.  Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-3cm long, 7-12mm wide or more, flat, almost hairless above, hairy below, toothed.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, 1-2 on stems arising from the bases of the leaves, sometimes apparently in racemes at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 487

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sida~corrugata