Corchorus pinnatipartitus Wild

Small perennial with a woody rootstock; branches up to 0.2 m long, suberect or somewhat trailing, glabrous except for a line of crisped hairs down one side of each inter-node. Leaf-blade up to 25 x 12 mm, narrowly oblong in outline but deeply pinnatipartite at least four-fifths of the way to the midrib, sometimes somewhat palmately lobed at the base, lobes blunt or subacute, entire or sometimes with a supplementary side-tooth, leaf-apex rounded or subacute, base truncate or shallowly cordate, basal setae absent, glabrous on both sides or minutely and sparsely puberulent on the midrib below, very minutely punctulate on both sides; petiole up to 7 mm long, with a line of hairs on the upper side; stipules about 2 mm long, lanceolate with a subulate apex. Inflorescence of 1-3-flowered fascicles opposite the leaves or occasionally with very short peduncles; pedicels up to 10 mm long, slender, puberulous; bracts about 1 mm long, setaceous. Sepals often purplish or pinkish, about 7 mm long, oblanceolate, apex subacute or acute, glabrous. Petals yellowish or tinged pinkish purple, as long as the sepals, narrowly obovate; claw minutely ciliolate on the margin. Androgynophore 0.25 mm tall, extended above into a very narrow annulus. Stamens filamentous, very numerous. Ovary trigonously ellipsoid, 3-locular, very minutely glandular-papillose; style about 3 mm long, slender. Capsule about 20 x 2 mm, subcylindric, often on a twisted or recurved pedicel, sparsely glandular, blunt and undivided at the apex; seeds numerous, dark brown, 1.5 x 1 mm, subcylindric, angular.