Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

Malvaceae
Sida ovata Forssk.
English name:
Local name: Ball, Jangli methi.
Description:
An erect, perennial medium sized herb or under-shrub, up to 90 cm tall. All parts
stellate pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, and hairy with toothed margins.
Flowers white, axillary, solitary or paired. Fruit globose, partially covered in sepals,
mericarps more than five, each with a very short mucro.
Flowering Period:
Most part of the year.
Habitat:
Common in dry, gravelly and open plains.
Uses:
Seeds are used as a remedy for lumbago.
Distribution:
In Pakistan it is common in Sindh and Punjab.
Distributed in drier parts of Africa, Arabia, India,
Pakistan and Iran.
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