Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
Robust erect annual herb, up to 2 m tall. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, up to 10 × 5 cm, thinly textured, mostly hairless on both surfaces; margins crenate-serrate. Flowers in 2-3 flowered axillary clusters, yellow, c. 1.4 cm in diameter; sepals linear, pointed, as long as the petals. Fruit a 10-ribbed cylindric capsule, splitting into 5 valves, straight or slightly curved, more or less appressed to the stem, up to 8 cm long with a straight apical beak.
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Corchorus olitorius L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138310
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Inglês
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fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
Pantropical. Cultivated in Asia for its "Jute" fibres.
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Corchorus olitorius L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138310
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings
