Corchorus junodi (Schinz) N.E.Br.

Small shrub up to 1.6 m tall; young branches greyish pubescent, older branches glabrescent and brown. Leaf-blade 15-60 x 6-20 mm, lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, rounded or acute at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, margin coarsely dentate, shortly and densely greenish tomentose or glabrescent above, densely whitish or yellowish tomentose below; petiole up to 10 mm long, densely grey-pubescent; stipules 2-4 mm long, subulate, densely grey-pubescent. Inflorescence of leaf-opposed 3-5-flowered cymes; peduncles up to 10 mm long, densely grey-pubescent; pedicels similar, up to 5 mm long; bracts about 3 mm long, subulate, grey-pubescent. Sepals up to 10 mm long and with a caudate apex, up to 4.5 mm long but often less, linear, densely pubescent outside, glabrous within. Petals yellow, 7-8 mm long, oblanceolate, with a basal claw up to 1 mm long with ciliolate margin. Androgynophore 0.5 mm long with a well developed annulus above with somewhat undulate margin. Stamens numerous, filiform. Ovary ovoid, densely pubescent, 5-locular, ovules very numerous; style 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Capsule up to 20 x 15 mm including the bristles, ovoid with a dense covering of rather stiff, stellately plumose bristles up to 5 mm long; seeds brown, 2 x 1.3 mm, irregularly ellipsoid.