Family: MalvaceaeDistribution: Found in road sides and forest clearings of India.2m tall perennial tomentose herb.Leaves lobed, one large gland is on the midrib. Flowers axillary, 1-1.5cm across, pedicel short or sessile. involucral bracts 5, adnate to the calyx tube. calyx 5, connate below into a tube. Petals 5, united below to the staminal tube. pink with dark pinkcolored throat,Stamens united into a tube, anthers are produced below the apex,sessile or short filamented, ovary 5 celled, stigmas 10, short, capitate. Ripe carpels covered with glochidiate spines.The plant yeilds fibre. Photographed at Nellore.
