Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Malvaceae | Genus: Sida | Species: Sida acuta Burm.f.( बरिआरा ) |
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| Synonym | Sida carpinifolia L.f., Sida balbisiana DC., Sida frutescens Cav. | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange |
| Common Name | Bariara | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | Common wire weed, Morning mallow, Common Fanpetals | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Bariara | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | Up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruits of 6 mericarps, trigonous, 2-awned, about 1.5 mm long, reticulately striate, 1-seeded; seeds hairy on hilum, dark-brown. |
| Habitat | Common; along roadsides, waste places, scrub jungles, crop fields. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Outer sub Himalayan tracts and warmer parts of India; pantropical. | Bark Details | The stems are fibrous to almost woody, with a tough stringy bark. |
| Distribution in Haryana | Origin | Native | |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Lence shaped | ||
| Description of Species | Annual herbs or undershrubs, up to 1.5 m high, stem woody at base. Leaves lanceolate to linear, acute, rounded at base, coarsely serrate, 3-nerved at base, sparsely hairy or glabrescent; petioles 2-5 mm long; stipules one lanceolate, other filiform or linear. Flowers pedicel 4-10 mm long, jointed in the middle. Calyx cyathiform, membranous, somewhat angular, 5-fid. Corolla light yellow; petals almost equal to sepals, obovate. Staminal column about 4 mm long, with hairs. Fruits of 6 mericarps, trigonous, 2-awned, about 1.5 mm long, reticulately striate, 1-seeded; seeds hairy on hilum, dark-brown. | Leaf Details | Leaves lanceolate to linear, acute, rounded at base, coarsely serrate, 3-nerved at base, sparsely hairy or glabrescent; petioles 2-5 mm long; stipules one lanceolate, other filiform or linear. |
