Corchorus aestuans

Common Name: jute

Family: Tiliaceae

Common Synonyms: Corchorus trilocularis

USDA Hardiness Zone: NA

Growth Habit: Herb

Origin: Mexico, Central and South America

FISC Category: -

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1885

IFAS Assessment:

• North: Not Assessed
• Central: Not Assessed
• South: Not Assessed

Description

Herbs annual, to 1 m tall. Stem red-brown, slightly yellowish puberulent; branches slender. Petiole 0.9-1.6 cm, with yellowish, long, rigid hairs; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 4.5-6.5 × 3-4 cm, sparsely pilose on both surfaces, glabrescent, basal veins 5-7, lateral veins 3-6 pairs, base rounded, margin serrate, basal pair of teeth usually elongating into filiform or caudate appendages, apex shortly acuminate or acute. Flowers solitary or several together in cymes, axillary or leaf-opposed; peduncle and pedicel very short or absent. Sepals 5, purple-red abaxially, narrowly oblong, ca. 5 mm, semi-foveolately boat-shaped distally, apex awned. Petals 5, yellow, nearly as long as sepals, obovate. Stamens many, yellow, ca. 3 mm. Ovary 3-5-loculed, long cylindrical, puberulent; style rodlike; stigma beaklike, 5-toothed. Capsule cylindrical, angled, 3-5-valved, 1.2-2.5 × ca. 0.5 cm, apex 3-5-angled, awns bifurcate.

Habitat

NA

Comments

Flowers summer to autumn.

Control Methods

• Manual: NA
• Chemical: NA
• Biological: NA

Control Notes

NA

References

Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk. 2013. Corchorus aestuans L., Malvaceae. http://www.hear.org/pier/species/corchorus_aestuans.htm Accessed March 27, 2022.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2021. Corchorus aestuans L. in GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 26 April 2022.

eFloras (2008). Published on the Internethttp://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013573 [accessed 1 August 2022] Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.