Biennial to perennial herbs or shrubs, usually with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, usually ± ovate with a cordate base. Flowers yellow, orange or apricot, usually opening in the afternoon. 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. Derivation of name: Arabic vernacular name for a species of this genus Worldwide: Over 100 species in tropical and warm zones Mozambique: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angulatum (Guill. & Perr.) Mast. var. angulatum | T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| angulatum (Guill. & Perr.) Mast. var. macrophyllum (Baker f.) Hochr. | N,M | |
| austro-africanum Hochr. | M | |
| englerianum Ulbr. | GI | Description |
| grandiflorum G. Don | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| grantii Meeuse | M | |
| indicum (L.) Sweet subsp. guineense (Schumach.) Borss.Waalk. | Z,TMS,M | Description, Image |
| lauraster Hochr. | N,Z,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| longicuspe Hochst. ex A. Rich. | T | Description, Image |
| mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |
| ramosum (Cav.) Guill. & Perr. | T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| sonneratianum (Cav.) Sweet | MS,M |