View source for Corchorus siliquosus

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|accepted_name=Corchorus siliquosus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 529. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Slippery burr;broomweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae;Corchorus;Corchorus siliquosus
|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 siliquosus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 198, 199
|treatment_page=page 200
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, annual. <b>Stems</b> erect, 3–25 dm, short-pilose in 1(–2) lines, hairs erect, dense, sharp-pointed. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–10 mm; blade elliptic-ovate, 0.5–2.5(–4) cm, base rounded-truncate, margins serrate, proximal teeth not prolonged, apex acute, surfaces glabrous, adaxial surface minutely pustulate-roughened. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually solitary flowers, sometimes fasciculate or cymose, 2–3-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 4–7 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, not awned, glabrous; petals 4–6 mm; stamens 50–70. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, flattened, not wing-angled, subtruncate distally, 2-valved, each valve with 2 awns 1.5–3 mm, 20–30(–60) × 2–3 mm, minutely hirtellous to hispidulous. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Oct(–Dec).
|habitat=Canal banks, glade edges, hammocks, hammock and swamp edges, beaches, open pine woodlands with limestone outcrops and solution holes, rock outcrops, roadsides
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Corchorus siliquosus</i> is native in Collier, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties. Reports of it from Alabama have been based on a garden-grown plant from Mobile County, and attribution to Mississippi has been based on misidentifications of <i>C. hirtus</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Corchorus siliquosus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Oct(–Dec).
|habitat=Canal banks, glade edges, hammocks, hammock and swamp edges, beaches, open pine woodlands with limestone outcrops and solution holes, rock outcrops, roadsides
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_356.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Grewioideae
|genus=Corchorus
|species=Corchorus siliquosus
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