Corchorus aestuans L.


Synonym : Corchorus acutangulusLam.
Corchorus brevicaulisHosok.
Corchorus campestrisMacfad.
Corchorus furcatusG.Don
Bangla Name : Naresh shak(Chakma), Titapat,Jonglipat,Bon-pat
English Name : Dwarf jute
Family : Tiliaceae
Disease : -
Description : Annual, much branched, spreading herbs; stems pilose, often reddish. Leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, base rounded, margins serrate, apex acute. Flowers 2-3 in leaf-opposed, shortly pedunculate cymes. Sepals 5, linear-oblong, hooded and apiculate. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, obtuse. Stamens many. Ovary c. 2 mm long, cylindric, 3-loculed; style 3-fid; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules 6-angled, 3 of the angles winged, 3-loculed. Seeds numerous, dark brown."
Distribution : -
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : -
Habit : Herb