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

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Riversleigh, Qld

Common Name

Pin Sida

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Prostrate to sprawling perennial forb or shrub to 1m tall.  Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.6-4.5cm long, 5-30mm wide, flat, hairy, sometimes becoming hairless, toothed.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, solitary or in clusters of 3-7 on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.  Vulnerable Vic.

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 page 488.

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