Corchorus

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Corchorus

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, with simple and/or stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, usually unlobed, crenate to serrate; stipules small, linear-filiform to filiform, usually deciduous. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in few-flowered umbel-like, leaf opposed cymes; bracts small, more or less persistent; sepals (4-)5, free, sometimes hooded, deciduous; petals (4-)5, free, spatulate to obovate, shorter (or longer) than or equaling the sepals in length; disk extrastaminal, ringlike or cupular or absent; stamens (10-) numerous, the filaments free or short-connate; ovary sessile (or on a short eglandular androgynophore), 2 - or 3(-5)-locular, with (2 ) numerous pendulous ovules in each locule, the style simple, filiform, the stigma large, discoid, irregularly dentate, crenulate, or lobulate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, linear-oblong or subglobose, terminating in a beak, short horns, or teeth, separating into 2 or 3(-5) valves; seeds usually numerous, small, dark brown to black, irregularly 3- or 4-angled or disklike, usually truncate at both ends.

  • Distribution

    A pantropical genus of 30-40 species, with centers of diversity in Africa and Australia.

    Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Queensland Australia Oceania| Africa|