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Biennial to perennial herbs or shrubs, usually with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, usually ± ovate with a cordate base. Flowers yellow, orange or apricot. Epicalyx 0. Fruit of (5-)10-c.40 mericarps arranged round a central axis; (1-)2-3(-9) seeded.  Not an easy genus to name. As in Sida it is ± essential to have ripe mericarps.

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Source: Flora of Zimbabwe

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