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

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Limestone Sida

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb, prostrate to sprawling.  Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-3cm long, flat, hairy, toothed, edges flat or wavy.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, solitary on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.  Vulnerable Vic.  Threatened list Vic.

The specialist on Sida at the South Australian Herbarium has informed me that Sida sp. C sensu Harden (1990) (in PlantNET) is the same species as Sida spodochroma.

Description and photo (as Sida sp. (undescribed)) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 491

PlantNET description (as Sida sp. C sensu Harden (1990)):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sida~sp.+C+sensu+Harden+%281990%29