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|accepted_name=Sida planicaulis
|accepted_authority=Cavanilles
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Diss.
|place=1: 24, plate 3, fig. 11. 1785
|year=1785
}}
|common_names=Flatstem sida;Brazilian wire-weed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malvastrum carpinifolium
|authority=(Medikus) A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malvinda carpinifolia
|authority=Medikus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sida acuta subsp. carpinifolia
|authority=(Medikus) Borssum Waalkes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. acuta var. carpinifolia
|authority=(Medikus) K. Schumann
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. betulina
|authority=de Candolle
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. bracteolata
|authority=Linnaeus f.
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. carpinifolia var. antillana
|authority=Millspaugh
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. carpinifolia var. betulina
|authority=de Candolle
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Sida;Sida planicaulis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sida]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sida planicaulis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 310, 311, 317, 319
|treatment_page=page 316
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, branches distichous, planar, 0.3–1 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, with simple 1–2 mm hairs, sometimes also minutely stellate-hairy. <b>Leaves</b> distichous; stipules free from petiole, subfalcate, 4–10 × 0.5–1 mm or less, often exceeding petiole, margins ciliate; petiole 5–6 mm, 1/15–1/5 blade length, hirsute; blade elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5–9 × 1–4 cm, 2 times longer than wide, base rounded, margins short-serrate at least distally, entire basally, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or with minute scattered stellate hairs and simple appressed antrorse hairs. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary congested glomerules, sometimes solitary or paired flowers. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.3–0.5 cm, subequal to or shorter than subtending petiole, shorter than to subequal to calyx. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx ribbed, 5–6 mm, often ciliate, with scattered minute stellate hairs, lobes triangular; petals yellow, 8–10 mm; staminal column glabrous; style 7- or 8-branched. <b>Schizocarps</b> subconic, 6–7 mm diam., glabrous or axially minutely puberulent; mericarps 7 or 8, 3 mm, smooth dorsally, laterally somewhat reticulate, apex spined, spines 2 mm, apically minutely puberulent. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;South America (Brazil);introduced also in Indian Ocean Islands (Mauritius);Pacific Islands (Hawaii;Tubuai Islands).
|discussion=<p><i>Sida planicaulis</i> is weedy and thought to have originated in Brazil, where it is quite common.</p><!--
--><p><i>Sida planicaulis</i> was first reported from south-central Florida (Glades, Highlands, Okeechobee, Osceola, and Polk counties) by K. R. DeLaney (2010) as new to North America; it has been reported (as S. acuta) also from New Jersey and Pennsylvania on ballast as a waif.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sida planicaulis
|author=
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malvastrum carpinifolium;Malvinda carpinifolia;Sida acuta subsp. carpinifolia;S. acuta var. carpinifolia;S. betulina;S. bracteolata;S. carpinifolia var. antillana;S. carpinifolia var. betulina
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;South America (Brazil);introduced also in Indian Ocean Islands (Mauritius);Pacific Islands (Hawaii;Tubuai Islands).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Diss.
|publication year=1785
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_579.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Sida
|species=Sida planicaulis
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