Botanical Survey of India | Flora of India

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Corchorus trilocularis L., Mant. Pl. 77. 1767; Masters in Fl. Brit. India 1: 397. 1874. C. serratifolius DC., Prodr. 1: 504. 1824.


Guj.: Kadvichuchdi; Hindi: Kagli, Karaka, Tambakhu; Kan.: Tandassir; Mar.: Kadunchuch; Sans.: Dirghachanchu, Kaunti.

Herbs, annual, erect or suberect, much branched, 30 - 150 cm high, pubescent. Leaves 1.3 - 10 x 0.4 - 3.5 cm, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to broadly oblong-elliptic, obtuse at apex, crenate-serrate, basal most serrations prolonged into filiform processes or not, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, distinctly hairy along nerves, 3 - 5-nerved; petioles 4 - 12 mm long, pilose; stipules 4 - 5 mm long, setose. Flowers 1 - 3, in leaf-opposed, shortly pedunculate cymes, ca 1.2 cm across; pedicels ca 2.5 mm long, glabrous; bracts ca 3 mm long, linear-lanceolate, caudate. Sepals 4 - 5 mm long, linear-oblong, acuminate. Petals yellow, 5 - 6.5 mm long, somewhat pandurate, obtuse. Stamens 15 - 20. Carpels 3; ovary cylindric, hairy, 3-loculed; style short; stigmas 3, capitate. Capsules 2 - 7 cm long, ca 2.5 mm across, 3-angular, straight, sometimes curved, scabrous-tuberculate, 3-loculed, transversely septate between seeds; beak ca 2.5 mm long, undivided. Seeds 1 - 1.2 mm long, black.

Fl. & Fr. Almost throughout the year.

Distrib. India: Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Paleotropics.




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