Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: balai grand, flaxleaf fanpetals

French: balai guad

Spanish: hoja de lanceta, lengua de pajaro, trebol sabanero

Habit:  herb

Description:  "Erect, sparsely branched herbs or subshrubs up to 1 m tall; branches sparsely hispidulous with simple and few-branched hairs. Leaf blades linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4-10 cm long, margins entire, petioles much shorter than blades, stipules filiform, 4-8 mm long. Flowers borne in leafless terminal racemes or corymbs; calyx campanulate, 4-6 mm long; petals white to pale yellow, magenta at base, 7-10 mm long; staminal column included. Mericarps 7, blackish, 2.7-3 mm long, apiculate but without beaks, smooth except for low ridges at the dorso-lateral edge, glabrous. Seeds ca. 2 mm long, glabrous" (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 898).

Habitat/ecology:  In New Caledonia, "très commun dans un secteur limité du Nord de la Grande-Terre" (MacKee, 1994; p. 98).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Neotropics

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Moloka‘i Island	introduced invasive	Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. (1999) (p. 898) Not common. Voucher cited: Hobdy 1836
New Caledonia New Caledonia Archipelago	Île Grande Terre	introduced invasive	Tassin, Jacques (2005)
New Caledonia New Caledonia Archipelago	Île Grande Terre	introduced invasive	MacKee, H. S. (1994) (p. 98) Vouchers cited: Däniker 1697 (Z), Virot 760, Hürlimann 1761, MacKee 4737, MacKee 11863, MacKee 15221, MacKee 16590, Nothis 437 (NOU), Toutain 3325 (NOU)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Costa Rica Costa Rica	Costa Rica (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
El Salvador El Salvador	El Salvador (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Guatemala Guatemala	Guatemala (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Mexico Mexico	Mexico (United Mexican States)	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 linifolia is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

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

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

References:

MacKee, H. S. 1994. Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 164 p.

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

Tassin, Jacques. 2005. Jacques Tassin (IAC-CIRAD), personal communication.

U. S. Government. 2011. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (on-line resource).

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

Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication. University of Hawai‘i Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp. (two volumes).