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|accepted_name=Wissadula
|accepted_authority=Medikus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Malvenfam.,
|place=24. 1787
|year=1787
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Wissadula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Wissadula]]</div></div>
|etymology=Presumably Sinhalese wissa, poison, and duvili, dust or powder; common name wissaduli used for plants of Centipeda minima (Linnaeus) A. Braun & Ascherson and misapplied here
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 216
|treatment_page=page 374
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>[perennial herbs]. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, hairy [glabrate], not viscid. <b>Leaves</b> distalmost sometimes subsessile; stipules usually persistent, filiform, subulate, or minute; blade broadly ovate to ovate-triangular [narrowly triangular], unlobed, base cordate, margins entire [crenate-dentate], surfaces usually stellate-hairy [sometimes glabrate]. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles or racemes; involucel absent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, shorter than mature fruits, lobes not ribbed, triangular; corolla usually yellowish, sometimes white, rotate; staminal column exserted; style 3–6-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, obovoid, not indurate; mericarps 3–6, 2-celled, apex bulbous-apiculate, proximal cell indehiscent, distal cell dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)3 per mericarp, lower cell 1-seeded, upper cell usually 2-seeded, hairy, proximal seed relatively more densely hairy. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;South America;s Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 25 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fries1908a
|text=Fries, R. E. 1908. Entwurf einer Monographie der Gattungen Wissadula und Pseudabutilon. Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n. s. 43(4): 1–114.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 2.5–3.5 cm, apex acute to subobtuse; stipules minute; petals yellow, fading to orange.
|[[Wissadula parvifolia|Wissadula parvifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 4–11 cm, apex acute or acuminate; stipules 4–12 mm; petals usually yellowish or white, sometimes with dark red basal spot
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades broadly ovate, base deeply cordate (except uppermost), margins curved; petals yellowish; stipules 7–12 mm.
|[[Wissadula hernandioides|Wissadula hernandioides]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades ovate-triangular, base shallowly cordate, margins straight; petals yellowish or white, sometimes with dark red basal spot; stipules 4–5 mm.
|[[Wissadula periplocifolia|Wissadula periplocifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Wissadula
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Medikus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;South America;s Asia;Africa.
|reference=fries1908a
|publication title=Malvenfam.,
|publication year=1787
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_694.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Wissadula
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