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|accepted_name=Melochia villosa
|accepted_authority=(Miller) Fawcett & Rendle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Jamaica
|place=5: 165. 1926
|year=1926
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Sida villosa
|authority=Miller
|publication_title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication_place=8, Sida no. 6. 1768
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Melochia hirsuta
|authority=Cavanilles
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. hirsuta var. glabrescens
|authority=(C. Presl) A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. serrata
|authority=(C. Presl) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Riedlea glabrescens
|authority=(Cavanilles) A. de Candolle
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=R. hirsuta
|authority=Ventenat
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=R. serrata
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae;Melochia;Melochia villosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melochia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Melochia villosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 210
|treatment_page=page 211
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rarely shrubs, 0.3–2 m, taprooted. <b>Stems</b> erect or spreading, usually branched. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole acute; petals pink, purple, or violet, 8–11 × 2–3 mm; longistylous form: stamens 4–6 mm, filaments completely connate, pistil 7–8 mm; brevistylous form: stamens 5–8 mm, pistil 4–5 mm. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, brown, subglobose, not winged, not beaked, obscurely obtusely 5-angled, 2–3.5 × 2.5–4 mm, dehiscence loculicidal, tardily septicidal, fruit falling apart. <b>Seeds</b> usually 1 per locule.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Wet or dry pinelands and savanna
|elevation=0–2300 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);South America.
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name=Melochia villosa
|author=
|authority=(Miller) Fawcett & Rendle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Melochia hirsuta;M. hirsuta var. glabrescens;M. serrata;Riedlea glabrescens;R. hirsuta;R. serrata
|basionyms=Sida villosa
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Wet or dry pinelands and savanna
|elevation=0–2300 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Jamaica
|publication year=1926
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae
|genus=Melochia
|species=Melochia villosa
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