Corchorus schimperi Cufod.

Annual herb branching from low down, at first erect but later branches often prostrate; branches with a line of short curly hairs on one side. Leaf-blade 10-50 x 7-15 mm, lanceolate or oblong, apex rounded, base broadly cuneate or rounded, sometimes rather asymmetric, margin crenate or crenate-serrate, sparsely pilose at least on the nerves beneath and at the margins; petiole up to 7 mm long, pubescent on the upper side; stipules 2-3 mm long, setaceous, sparsely ciliate-pubescent. Inflorescences of 1-3-flowered extra axillary fascicles, the peduncles usually being obsolete; pedicels up to 2 mm long, pubescent, twisted in fruit; bracts 1-2 mm long, setaceous. Sepals about 3-5 mm long, linear to very narrowly elliptic, shortly acuminate at the apex, pubescent on the back. Petals yellow, as long as the sepals, narrowly obovate to obovate; basal claw, if present, minutely ciliolate, shorter than 0.5 mm. Androgynophore and annulus very minute, about 0.25 mm tall. Stamens filamentous, numerous. Ovary trigonously cylindric, 3-locular, very minutely setulose-pubescent; style 2.5 mm long, glabrous, very slender. Capsule up to 25 mm long, straight or often curved, trigonous, with the angles muricate or sharply toothed, 3-valved, with many seeds; beak very short, undivided and blunt; seeds about 1.4 x 0.75 mm, subcylindric, dark brown.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in sands and clays and grows between 1,310-1,950 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable.