Corchorus aspleniifolius Burch.

Perennial herb with prostrate or suberect annual stems from a woody rootstock; stems glabrous or with a line of short curly hairs on one side only or with spreading hairs all round the stem as well as the line of short curly hairs. Leaf-blade 15-80 x 2-15 mm, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly oblong or almost linear, apex acute or subacute, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, margin dentate-crenate or serrate, toothing very variable in size, sometimes irregular or biserrate and from very coarsely to rather finely toothed, basal setae absent, glabrous on both sides or sparsely to densely hispid with tubercular-based hairs; petiole up to 10 mm long, pubescent at least on the upper side; stipules up to 10 mm long, setaceous, setulose-pubescent. Inflorescence of single 1-3-flowered cymes opposite or subopposite the upper leaf axils; peduncle obsolete or up to 4 mm long, pubescent or glabrous; pedicels similar, up to 5 mm long; bracts about 2.5 mm long, setaceous, pubescent. Sepals 6-10 mm long, linear to linear-oblanceolate, glabrous on both sides or setulose-pubescent at the back, acuminate but not caudate at the apex, not keeled. Petals yellow, as long as the sepals, oblanceolate to obovate, with a basal claw about 0.75 mm long and with ciliate margin. Androgynophore about 0.3 mm tall, extended above into a slightly undulate annulus. Stamens filamentous, very numerous. Ovary trigonously subcylindric, very shortly setulose-pubescent, 3-locular; style 2-7 mm long, glabrous. Capsule 20-30 mm long, many-seeded, often on rather twisted or curved pedicels and therefore variable in its presentation, subcylindric not 3-angled, sparsely setulose-scabrid, attenuated to a blunt, undivided apex; seeds dark brown, 1.3-2 x 0.75-1.0 mm, shortly cylindric.