Balai-zortie

Sida urens is a pantropical, more or less prostrate to ascending perennial herb or subshrub of the mallow family, reaching about thirty to sixty centimetres. The stems are slender, branching, and densely clothed in coarse, often stinging, simple and stellate hairs, a feature reflected in the epithet 'urens' (burning). The alternate leaves are ovate to broadly ovate or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, with toothed margins, palmate venation, and hairy surfaces, borne on hairy petioles with small stipules. Small yellow to pale-orange flowers, about one centimetre across, arise singly or in dense axillary or terminal clusters; each has five sepals, five obovate petals, and a column of numerous stamens characteristic of the Malvaceae. The fruit is a schizocarp that splits into several one-seeded mericarps, each typically bearing two short apical awns. The species is widespread across tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas in disturbed ground, roadsides, and waste places.