WorldFloraDB - Corchorus capsularis

Characteristics

Herbs woody, erect, 1-2 m tall. Petiole ca. 2 cm, puberulent; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 5-12 × 2-5 cm, glabrous, basal veins ascending to mid leaf, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, base rounded, margin coarsely serrate, apex acuminate. Flowers solitary or several arranged in cymes, axillary; peduncle and pedicel short. Sepals 4 or 5, 3-4 mm. Petals obovate, ± as long as sepals, glabrous. Stamens 18-22; androgynophore short, glabrous. Ovary 5-loculed, glabrous; stigma lobed. Capsule globose, obtusely angled, 5-valved, ca. 1 cm in diam., verrucose, apex truncate or slightly emarginate. Fl. summer, fr. late autumn.

More

A shrub. It grows 1-2 m high. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are oval but long. They have teeth along the edge. Leaves are about 5-10 cm long by 1.5-3 cm wide. The leaf stalk is 1-4 cm long. Flowers are in the axils of leaves. Flowers are small and yellow. The fruit are round capsules. They have 10 ribs. The seed are 1.2 cm long by 1 cm wide. The seeds are angular.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

2.5

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

1.5

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

A tropical plant. In Nepal it grows to about 1200 m altitude. It grows in wetlands. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

More

Original habitat is obscure.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The young leaves are blanched then fried with garlic and eaten with boiled rice. The leaves are used as a substitute for tea.

Uses	construction environmental use fiber food gene source material medicinal poison tea wood
Edible	fruits leaves seeds
Therapeutic use	Diarrhea (fruit), Gastric acid (fruit), Wounds and injuries (fruit), Abscess (leaf), Anthelmintics (leaf), Antifungal agents (leaf), Antiviral agents (leaf), Appetite stimulants (leaf), Central nervous system diseases (leaf), Colic (leaf), Common cold (leaf), Cystitis (leaf), Demulcents (leaf), Diuretics (leaf), Dysentery (leaf), Dyspepsia (leaf), Dysuria (leaf), Fever (leaf), Flatulence (leaf), Furunculosis (leaf), Gastritis (leaf), Gonorrhea (leaf), Hypotension (leaf), Laxatives (leaf), Liver injury (leaf), Liver diseases (leaf), General tonic for rejuvenation (leaf), Wounds and injuries (leaf), Antiperiodic (leaf), Cooling effect on body (leaf), Diarrhea (root), Cathartics (seed), Hemagglutination (seed), Fever (stem), Apertif (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Liver (unspecified), Anti-infective agents, local (unspecified), Demulcents (unspecified), Disorder of ejaculation (unspecified), Flatulence (unspecified), Laxatives (unspecified), Liver diseases (unspecified), General tonic for rejuvenation (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

It is grown from seed.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	1
Optimum temperature (C°)	20 - 37
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Images

Corchorus capsularis unspecified picture

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:833552-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000620030
COL ID	6B2QT
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	447635
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Rhizanota cannabina Corchorus capsularis Corchorus marua Corchorus cordifolius

WorldFloraDB 2024

Corchorus capsularis L.

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Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Corchorus