Erect , annual or perennial herb ; up to 50 cm tall , with a woody base . Stems erect , branching or sometimes with decumbent branches , often purplish , glabrescent . Leaves alternate , 1-4 x 0 . 6-2 cm , simple , ovate to ovate-oblong , acute or subacute apex , serrate margin , rounded or broadly cuneate base , petiolate . Inflorescences of 1–3-flowered cymes borne opposite the upper leaves . Flowers yellow , large , bisexual , about 6 mm across ; sepals 5 , narrowly lanceolate , glabrous to sparsely pilose , falling soon ; petals 5 , free , oblanceolate ; stamens 30–40 ; ovary trigonously subcylindric , with few to many tufted hairs . Fruit capsule , 2-4 cm , cylindrical , straight or slightly curved , 3-locular , 3-winged , many-seeded . Seeds 1–1 . 3 × 0·7–1 mm . , oblong-ovoid , smooth , dark brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Corchorus aestuans Forssk.
Corchorus asplenifolius E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.
Corchorus fruticulosus Vis.
Corchorus gracilis R.Br.
Corchorus somalicus Gand.
Corchorus triflorus Bojer
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Wild Jew’s Mallow
Three Locule Corchorus
Native Jute
In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2003) wrote that: "The leaves are soaked in water and the water is used as a shampoo and hair tonic. Sometimes cultivated as a vegetable". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.1).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *http://pza.sanbi.org *https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw *https://uses.plantnet-project.org *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
