View source for Corchorus aestuans

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|accepted_name=Corchorus aestuans
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 1079. 1759
|year=1759
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|common_names=East Indian or West African mallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corchorus acutangulus
|authority=Lamarck
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae;Corchorus;Corchorus aestuans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Corchorus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Corchorus aestuans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 198
|treatment_page=page 199
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, annual or short-lived perennial. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent or ascending, 2–13(–20) dm, puberulent in lines, hairs simple, arched, downturned to irregularly oriented. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–30(–36) mm; blade ovate or broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, 2–8 cm, base rounded-truncate, margins serrate, one or both of basal pair of teeth sometimes prolonged into caudate-setaceous point 3–5 mm, apex short-acuminate or acute, surfaces sparsely pilose to strigose on veins and lamina. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually solitary flowers, sometimes fasciculate or cymose, 2–3-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals narrowly oblong, 3–5 mm, awned, glabrous; petals 4–6 mm; stamens 10–20. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, wing-angled, wings to 2 mm wide, 3(–4)[–5]-valved, each valve terminated by bifurcate awn 1.5–3 mm, 15–25(–40) × 4–5 mm, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Roadsides, fallow fields, vacant lots, abandoned road beds, concrete cracks, edges of scrub oak thickets and pine-oak woodlands, lake edges, shady woodlands
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Asia (India);Africa;introduced also in West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia (Japan;Pakistan;Singapore);Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Apparently the first and perhaps only record of <i>Corchorus aestuans</i> for Alabama is an 1891 collection from ballast ground in Mobile County.</p>
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name=Corchorus aestuans
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Corchorus acutangulus
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Roadsides, fallow fields, vacant lots, abandoned road beds, concrete cracks, edges of scrub oak thickets and pine-oak woodlands, lake edges, shady woodlands
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Asia (India);Africa;introduced also in West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia (Japan;Pakistan;Singapore);Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=Introduced;Weedy
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_353.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae
|genus=Corchorus
|species=Corchorus aestuans
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