Description
is a small shrub in the Malvaceae family. Leaves are locally applied to boils and ulce Roots are used in fever, chest affection and urethritis.
Indian Mallow is an erect velvety shrub with circular-ovate or heart-shaped leaves with coarsely crenate-serrate margins. The plant can grow up to 1 to 2 m. The leaves are alternately arranged, and have long stalks and have velvety, soft, pale hairs on them. Orange-yellow flowers occur in solitarily in axils.
Petals are triangular-obovate, slightly more, staminal-tube hairy with stellate hai Fruit is circular in shape, brown when dry, each carpel flattened, somewhat boat-shaped. Seeds are kidney-shaped. Flowering season from September to April.Plant Specifications
*above specification are indicative only. actual dimensions may vary by +-10%
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