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Corchorus aestuans

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  • Botanical Name : Corchorus aestuans L.
  • Synonyms : Corchorus acutangulus Lam.
  • Common Name : East Indian Mallow, Choonch
  • Plant Family : Tiliaceae
  • Plant Form : Herb
  • Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4-6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20-22, 26, 27, 30
  • Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Infocity, Basan

About Corchorus aestuans Plant :

  • Habit : An annual much-branched herb with more or less pubescent branches.
  • Leaves : Ovate, acute, serrate, the lower serratures on each side usually produced into filiform appendages, glabrous, base rounded, petioles slender, hairy, stipules lanceolate, acicular.
  • Inflorescence : Cymose
  • Flower : Bracteate, Bracts filiform, pedicellate, Sepals linear-oblong, apiculate.
  • Petals spathulate, a little longer than the sepals.
  • Fruits : Capsules erect, stout, cylindric, truncate, 6-angled, beak trifid, the tips stellately spreading or recurved.
  • Seeds : Truncate, dark-brown.
  • Flowering and Fruiting Time : September
  • Significance : A common weed.