Corchorus hirsutus L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub, 2 m. high or less, usually erect, but on rocks sometimes nearly prostrate, the young twigs, the leaves and the inflorescence densely pale scurfytomentulose. Leaves short-petioled, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, crenate-dentate, 2-6 cm. long, mostly obtuse; flowers in small umbels opposite the leaves, the peduncle about as long as the pedicels; sepals tomentulose, 5-6 mm. long; petals obovate, bright yellow, about as long as the sepals; capsule oblong, densely tomentose, obtuse, 4-celled, as long as the curved pedicels or longer, about 6 mm. thick.
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Distribution
A common shrub in pastures, coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great Bahama and Andros to Grand Turk and Inagua : West Indies; Mexico to tropical South America. Recorded by Dolley as Ccnchrus hirsutus. Woolly Corchorus. Mallet. Jack Switch.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|