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Common wireweed |
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| Halbi Name | Kharala bahari |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
| Vernacular name | Khaenta, Bariara | |
| Scientific name | Sida acuta Burm. F. | |
| Family | Malvaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Herbaceous, slendrical branch, minutely hairs. | |
| Leaves | 2.5 to 6.3 cmlong, lanceolate, base rounded, sharply serrate, glabrous. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | 1 to 2in each exil, pedicel joined above the middle, corlla, yellow, petals connate at the base with stamonal tube. |    |
| Fruit/ seed | 5-6 mm diameter, carpels, 5-9, strongly reticulated, puebrulous dorsal margins toothed, awns 2, linear, seeds smooth brown. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Weed as pasture, lawn, roadsides | |
| Flowering and fruiting | July to January | |
| Associated with | Wasteland flora | |
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