Herb
Corchorus aestuans L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Corchorus acutangulus Lam. |
synonym | Corchorus campestris Macfad. |
synonym | Corchorus furcatus G.Don |
synonym | Corchorus fuscus Roxb. |
synonym | Corchorus oppositiflorus Hassk. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Annual, much branched, spreading herbs; stems pilose, often reddish. Leaves 2.5-7 x 1.5-3.5 cm, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, base rounded, margins serrate, the basal pair of serrations ending in setae or not, apex acute, basally 3-5-nerved; petioles upto 3 cm long; stipules 4-8 mm long, setaceous. Flowers 2-3 in leaf-opposed, shortly pedunculate cymes; pedicels c. 2 mm long. Sepals 5, 3-4 mm long, linear-oblong, hooded and apiculate. Petals 5, yellow, 3-5 mm long, obovate, obtuse. Stamens many. Ovary c. 2 mm long, cylindric, 3-loculed; style 3-fid; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules 1-3 x 0.4-0.6 cm, 6-angled, 3 of the angles winged, 3-loculed. Seeds numerous, dark brown.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Habit: Undershrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Habit: A much branched subshrub, upto 75cm.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In leaf-opposed cymes, 3-flowered, yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A terete capsule, angular, 3-winged, beak 3-fid, radiating; seeds numerous, truncate. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Leaves 3-4-nerved from base, basal serrature filiform.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate distichous
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Ovate-elliptic or oblong
Leaf Apex
Obtuse-subacute
Leaf Base
Obtuse-subacute
Leaf Margin
Serrate
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Degraded deciduous forests, also in the wastelands
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Waste places, fallow fields, jungles
Degraded deciduous forests, also in the wastelands
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
Indian Distribution
Assam
Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Maharashtra: Common throughout
Karnataka: Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Found in arable lands, fallow fields and agricultural lands from plains to 1000m. Common. C.America, tropical Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Malesia and Australia.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=638
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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A common weed of cultivable lands.
Keystone Foundation
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Corchorus aestuans L., Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1079. 1759; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 53. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 82. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 69. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 84. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 92. 1990; P. Daniel & M. Chandra. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 485. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 89. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 46. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 19. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 71. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 105. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 43. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 35. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 98. 2005; P. Daniel in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 480. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 142. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 168. 2009.
- Corchorus acutangulus Lam., Encycl. 2: 104. 1786 non Forssk. 1775; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 398. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 121(86). 1915.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=638
- Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
Information Listing > References
- Corchorus aestuans L., Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1079. 1759; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 53. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 82. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 69. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 84. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 92. 1990; P. Daniel & M. Chandra. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 485. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 89. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 46. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 19. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 71. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 105. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 43. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 35. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 98. 2005; P. Daniel in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 480. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 142. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 168. 2009.
- Corchorus acutangulus Lam., Encycl. 2: 104. 1786 non Forssk. 1775; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 398. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 121(86). 1915.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=638
- Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Malvales Juss. |
Family | Malvaceae Juss. |
Genus | Corchorus |
Species | Corchorus aestuans L. |
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