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4953.000 Corchorus
Description of the genus
Herbs or small shrubs, sometimes with annual stems from a woody rootstock, with simple or stellate hairs. Stipules lateral, usually setaceous or subacute. Leaves alternate, usually with a long bristle on either side near the base. Flowers in bracteate pedunculate cymes, ± opposite the leaves. Sepals 4-5, usually narrow. Petals yellow. Stamens 7 to many. Ovary 2-5-locular. Fruit (in ours) a cylindric, rarely narrowly ovoid (kirkii), capsule, loculicidally 2-5-valved. Worldwide: 100 species in the tropics |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Links to maps | FZ divisions | Content |
| aestuans L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,E | Description, Image |
| asplenifolius Burch. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| confusus Wild | Altitude Rainfall Geology | W,C,E,S | |
| fascicularis Lam. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N | |
| kirkii N.E. Br. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| longipedunculatus Mast. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,E,S | Description, Image |
| olitorius L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,E,S | Description, Image |
| pseudocapsularis Schweinf. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N | |
| schimperi Cufod. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| tridens L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| trilocularis L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| velutinus Wild | Altitude Rainfall Geology | S |
Other sources of information about Corchorus:
Flora of Mozambique: CorchorusePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Corchorus
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Corchorus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Corchorus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Corchorus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Corchorus
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