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AA. Flowers small
C. Fruit with five to many lobes; flowers commonly yellow
or orange
D. Each fruiting lobe with three or more seeds
Abutilon
A. indicum Sweet
A. butilon molle Sweet
A. molle Sweet - capsules ten-parted, to 6', black
DD. Each fruit lobe with one seed
E. Leaves felt covered, stems not red
Sida
Leaves oblong or heart shaped, carpels 7-12
S. fallax Walp.
Leaves ovate to rhombic, carpels 8-10
S. rhombifolia L.
Leaves heart shaped, carpels 8-9 with spines
S. cordifolia L.
EE. Leaves hairy; stems red...Malvastrum
Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.)
Garke
Trees
A. Erect
B. Leaves less than 5" long; flowers yellow to purple;
entire, heart shaped...........Thespesia
T. populnea (L.) Sol.
AA. Not commonly erect
BB. Leaves rounded; flowers yellow to red...Hibiscus
H. Tiliaceus L.