Wissadula periplocifolia (L.) C. Presl ex Thwaites

The occurrence of this species in Africa and America has been questioned (e.g., by Vollesen, Fl. Ethiopia Eritrea 2(2): 239. 1995) with the African plants assigned to Wissadula rostrata, which has white stem hairs, leaves 3-12 cm wide, and filaments 4-5 mm.

Subshrubs, ca. 1 m tall. Stems densely fawn stellate puberulent, with both stellate and simple hairs. Stipules subulate, ca. 3 mm; petiole 0.3-2 cm, stellate tomentose and with twisted hairs; leaf blade long triangular, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 × 1.5-2.5 cm, abaxially stellate tomentose, adaxially minutely stellate pubescent, base truncate to subcordate, margin entire or shallowly undulate, apex long acuminate to acute. Lower flow-
ers solitary, axillary, upper flowers in lax, terminal panicles to 80 cm. Pedicel 1-2 cm, to 4 cm in fruit, puberulent, articulate near tip. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 3 mm, lobes ovate to triangular, acute. Corolla pale yellow, ca. 7 mm in diam.; petals obovate, ca. 4 mm. Staminal column glabrous, free filaments many, 1-2 mm. Style short. Pseudocapsule obconic, ca. 1 cm in diam., apically truncate; mericarps with a short mucro, abaxially rounded, subglabrous. Seeds black, ca. 3 mm, single proximal seed densely hairy with simple long hairs, 2 distal seeds stellate hairy or with simple hairs. Fl. Sep-Feb.

Thickets near sea level, dry slopes, roadsides. Hainan [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand].

Sida periplocifolia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 684. 1753; Abutilon periplocifolium (Linnaeus) Sweet; S. periplocifolia var. zeylanica Candolle; Wissadula rostrata (Schumacher & Thonning) J. D. Hooker var. zeylanica Masters; W. zeylanica Medikus, nom. illeg. superfl.

rostrata: beaked

Slender perennial suffrutex, up to 2 m. Stems branching from the base, covered in stellate hairs. Leaves ovate to heart-shaped, dark green above, paler below, covered with stellate hairs, particularly below. Flowers in lax axillary and terminal panicles, yellow. Fruit in 4 segments, obconical, angled.

Frequent

Widespread in tropical Africa, Namibia and Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa

Wissadula periplocifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cẩm quỳ. Loài này được (L.) Thwaites miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1858.

隔蒴苘（学名：Wissadula periplocifolia）为锦葵科隔蒴苘属下的一个种。