Common Name- Bilayat
Botanical Name- Sida ovata
Classification:
Kingdom - Plantae
Phyllum -Magnoliophyta
Class - Magnoliopsida
Order - Malvales
Family - Malvaceae
Genus - Sida
Species - ovata
Key Characters:
1- It is perennial herb, up to 3ft tall, with all part velvety,
2- Stem is purple in colour and hairy.
3- Oval leaf fan petalis an erect.
4- Leaves have 3-7 mm long, threadlike stipules.
5- Floers are white, occurring solitary or paired leaf axils.
6- Sepals cup is 5 lobed about 4mm across and slightly angular Common Name- Bhendi
Botanical Name-Abelmoschus esculentus
Classification:
Kingdom - Plantae
Unranked- Angiosperm
Unranked- Eudicots
Unranked- Rosids
Order - Malvales
Family - Malvaceae
Sub-family- Mavoideae
Tribe - Hibisceae
Genus - Abelmoschus
Species - esculentus
Key characters:
1- It is small medium herb.
2- The stem is semiwoody with few branches.
3- The leaves are 10-40 cm long and broad, palmately lobe with 37 lobes.the lobe from barely lobe, to cut almost to the base of leaf
4- The flowers with 5 white to yellow petals, often with red or purple spot at the base of each petal.
5- The fruit is capsule 5-20 cm long containing numerous seeds. Common Name- Wire weed, Jungli methi
Botanical Name- Sida acuta
Classification:
Kingdom - Plantae
Unranked- Angiosperm
Unranked- Eudicots
Unranked- Rosids
Order - Malvales
Family - Malvaceae
Tribe - malvaeae
Genus - Sida
Species - acuta
Key Characters:
1- The plant is undershrub, perennial, much branched, branches, stellately hairy.
2- Leaves are 1.5 cm long,lanceolate, base rounded.
3- Flowers are yellow, pedicel 1-2 in each axils.
4- Calyx lobe triangular, acute.
5- Fruit strongly reticulate.
6- Seeds subglobose, brown and smooth. Common Name- kewad, maradsheng
Botanical Name- Helicteres isora
Classification:
Kingdom - Plantae
Division - Angiosperm
Class - Eudicots
Order - Malvales
Family - Malvaceae
Subfamily- Helicterodeae
Genus - Helicteres
Species - isora
Key Characters;
1- It is large shrub small tree with grey bark.
2- Leaves are alternately arranged hairy, ovate shaped with serrate margin.
3- Bark is gregish in colour.
4- Leaves are flower are brick red or orange red in colour.
5- Fruit are compound pod.
Common Name- Lal ambari
Botanical Name- Hibiscus sabdariffa
Classification:
Kingdom- Plantae
Unranked- Angiosperm
Unranked- Eudicots
Unranked- Rosids
Order - Malvales
Family - Malvaceae
Genus - Hibiscus
Species - sabdariffa
Key Characters:
1- It is an annual or perennial herb or woody based, subshrub, growing 7-8 ft tall.
2- Leaves are deeply 3-5 lobed, 8-15cm in long, arranged alternately on the stem.
3- The flowers are 8-10 cm in diameter to with dark red in colour.
4- Petals are 5 in number.
5- It have stout fleshy calyx at the base, 1-2 cm wide.
6- Fleshy and bright red as the fruit matures.