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|accepted_name=Sidastrum
|accepted_authority=Baker f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot.
|place=30: 137. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Sidastrum
|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>[[Sidastrum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Generic name Sida and Latin -astrum, resembling
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 217
|treatment_page=page 356
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[subshrubs]. <b>Stems</b> erect, ± stellate-hairy, not viscid. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, petiolate or subsessile; stipules persistent, subulate; blade ovate or lanceolate [elliptic], not dissected or parted, base truncate or subcordate [rounded], margins dentate [serrate or crenate], surfaces stellate-hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles [solitary flowers or racemes]; involucel absent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, not completely enclosing fruit, lobes cupuliform, unribbed; corolla reflexed [rotate], purple [white, yellow, or orange]; staminal column ± included; style 5[–10]-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate to conic, not indurate, often stellate-hairy; mericarps 5[–10], 1-celled, without dorsal spurs or endoglossum, smooth or weakly reticulate, lateral walls firm, not evanescent, essentially indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, glabrous [subglabrous, sparsely hairy]. <b>x</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;not in saline habitats.
|discussion=<p>Species 7 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Sidastrum
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Baker f.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;not in saline habitats.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot.
|publication year=1892
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Sidastrum
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