Sida ternataL.f.

WFO wfo-0001077558 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sida ternata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2012-12-20 / obs. 15143862
Sida ternata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15143870
Sida ternata, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15143873

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Sida ternata is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda Cape ProvincesDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiNorthern ProvincesRwandaTanzaniaUganda
Native distribution of Sida ternata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pavonia crenata Hochst.
  • Sida permutata Hochst. ex A.Rich.
  • Sida triloba Cav.
  • Sida triloba Hochst. ex A.Rich.
  • Sida triloba f. compacta De Wild.
  • Sida triloba f. elongata De Wild.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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