Corchorus kirkii N.E.Br.

Small shrub up to 2.5 m tall; branches densely greyish or yellowish tomentose. Leaf-blade 24-100 x 8-27 mm, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rounded or acute at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, margin coarsely serrate, repand or finely serrate, thick-textured, densely grey-green or yellowish tomentose on both sides, nerves impressed above, somewhat prominent below; petiole up to 13 mm long, greyish or yellowish tomentose; stipules up to 5 mm long, subulate, tomentose on the back. Inflorescence of leaf-opposed 3-8-flowered cymes; peduncles up to 10 mm long but often much shorter, tomentose; pedicels similar, up to 3 mm; bracts up to 8 mm long, subulate, tomentose or pilose on the back. Sepals up to 10 mm long, lanceolate-acuminate to linear, stellately pilose or tomentose on the back. Petals yellow, the same length as the sepals, narrowly obovate to linear-oblong, with a short basal claw ciliolate on the margin. Androgynophore 0.4 mm long with an annulus above. Stamens 20-30, filiform. Ovary cylindric, 3-or occasionally 4-locular, many-seeded, densely stellately pilose; style about 2 mm long, glabrous. Capsule up to 30 mm long, not beaked, narrowly ovoid to linear-cylindric, densely clothed with soft, stellately hairy bristles; seeds brown, about 2.5 x 1.3 mm, compressed-ellipsoid.