Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

French: balai savane

Samoan: mautofu

Spanish: escoba, escoba de palma, escoba negra

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Erect subshrubs 0.5-1 m tall, with distichous branching and leaf arrangement, the stems arched, stellate-pubescent and sometimes with simple hairs ca 1 mm long.  Leaves short-petiolate or subsessile, the blades lanceolate or elliptic, serrate, acute, sparsely ciliate, the leaves sometimes appearing imbricate because of short internodes and distichous arrangement; stipules broadly falcate, several-nerved, ciliate.  Flowers subsessile or with short pedicels, solitary or glomerulate in the leaf axils; calyx 4-5 mm long, ciliate; corolla 6-8 mm long, white or yellowish.  Fruits subglabrous; mericarps 5, blackish, with 2 apical spines"  (Fryxell, 1992; p. 105).

Habitat/ecology:  "Deciduous forests, roadsides, river banks, disturbed vegetation, 50-200 m" (Steyermark et al., 1995; vol. 6, p. 215).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  West Indies and Nicaragua to Bolivia and Paraguay (Fryxell, 1992; p. 105).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Samoa Western Samoa Islands	Western Samoa Islands		Swarbrick, John T. (1997) (p. 96)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Colombia Colombia	Colombia (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Costa Rica Costa Rica	Costa Rica (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Nicaragua Nicaragua	Nicaragua (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Panama Panama	Panama (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Sida glomerata is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Sida glomerata as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Sida glomerata may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Fryxell, PLaul A. 1992. Malvaceae [118.]. Flora of Ecuador 44. 142 pp.

Steyermark, Julian A./Berry, Paul E./Yatskievych, Kay/Holst, Bruce. 1995. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Miss. Bot. Gar. Press. 1995-2003, 7 vols. to date.

Swarbrick, John T. 1997. Weeds of the Pacific Islands. Technical paper no. 209. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 124 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.