taxonID	type	description	language	source
7B6F87C8CF3CFFC393B5FF11F2007D52.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — Sida keralensis is closely similar to S. scabrida Wight & Arnott (1834: 57), but clearly distinct by being the undershrubs with 40 - 60 cm high, adpressed stellate hairy stem (vs. subshrubs with 150 - 200 cm high with minute stellate hairs intermingled with scattered long hairs), discolorous ovate or narrowly ovate to elliptic-ovate leaves with rounded-subcordate base, acute apex and crenate-serrate margins from the base (vs. concolorous rhomboid or oblonglanceolate leaves with truncate base, acuminate apex, crenate-serrate margins distally and entire towards the base), linear-lanceolate to slightly falcate stipules with a strong median nerve from the base (vs. subulate or filiform stipules without a median nerve), floral pedicels 0.4 – 0.5 cm long and are more or less equal to the stipules (vs. floral pedicels 0.8 – 1.0 cm long and are usually much longer than the stipules) and the distinctly shorter fruiting pedicels (vs. much elongated fruiting pedicels). See Table 1 for further details.	en	Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh, Shailajakumari, Sreedharan, Sreekala, Appukuttan Kamalabhai, Bagavathi, Parthipan, Prakashkumar, Raveendranpillai (2021): Sida keralensis (Malvaceae): a new species from Kerala, India. Phytotaxa 508 (3): 289-294, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.3.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.508.3.4
