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|accepted_name=Corchorus hirtus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl. ed.
|place=2, 1: 747. 1762
|year=1762
}}
|common_names=Red or Orinoco jute
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corchorus hirtus var. glabellus
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=variety
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|name=C. hirtus var. orinocensis
|authority=(Kunth) K. Schumann
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. orinocensis
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae;Corchorus;Corchorus hirtus
|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 hirtus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 198, 200
|treatment_page=page 199
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, annual. <b>Stems</b> erect, 5–10(–25) dm, puberulent in lines, hairs retrorse, blunt-tipped. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2–20 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2–7 cm, base rounded to obtuse, margins crenate-serrate, proximal teeth not prolonged, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hirsute-strigose on veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually solitary flowers, sometimes fasciculate or cymose, 2–3-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 3–4 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 3–5(–7) mm, not awned, hirsute; petals 4–6 mm; stamens 15–25. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, terete, not wing-angled, 2-valved, distally abruptly constricted to beaklike apex, without awns, (20–)25–45(–60) × 2 mm, sparsely to moderately strigose to strigulose. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Nov.
|habitat=Hammock edges, fallow fields, remnant prairie railroad rights-of-way, wet-weather ponds, lake, stream, and marsh edges, levees, floodplains, roadsides, ditches, grazed pastures, desert grasslands
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Fla.;Miss.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Europe (France);Asia (Afghanistan;Thailand;Turkey);Africa;w Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>In Florida, <i>Corchorus hirtus</i> occurs at 0–50 m, in Texas 20–200 m, in Arizona 1200–1500 m.</p><!--
--><p>Attributions of <i>Corchorus hirtus</i> to Alabama mostly have been based on garden-grown plants from Mobile and Tuscaloosa counties. A single collection of naturalized plants has been seen: Mobile Co., Dauphin Island, pine forest, 17 Oct 1973, Taylor and Taylor 15196 (BRIT). In Mississippi, it is known from collections in 1985 and 1986 from adjacent Issaquena and Sharkey counties (BRIT, VDB; these collections previously have been identified as <i>C. siliquosus</i>).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Corchorus hirtus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Corchorus hirtus var. glabellus;C. hirtus var. orinocensis;C. orinocensis
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Nov.
|habitat=Hammock edges, fallow fields, remnant prairie railroad rights-of-way, wet-weather ponds, lake, stream, and marsh edges, levees, floodplains, roadsides, ditches, grazed pastures, desert grasslands
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Fla.;Miss.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Europe (France);Asia (Afghanistan;Thailand;Turkey);Africa;w Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1762
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_355.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae
|genus=Corchorus
|species=Corchorus hirtus
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