MalvaceaeSubfamily Bombacoideae
Tribe Adansonieae
Subfamily Byttneroideae
Tribe Hermannieae
Subfamily Byttneroideae
Tribe Theobromeae
Subfamily Dombeyoideae
Tribe Dombeyeae
Subfamily Grewioideae
Tribe Grewieae
Subfamily Grewioideae
Tribe Sparrmannieae
Subfamily Helicteroideae
Tribe Durioneae
Subfamily Malvoideae
Subfamily Malvoideae
Tribe Gossypieae
Subfamily Malvoideae
Tribe Hibisceae
Subfamily Malvoideae
Tribe Malveae
Subfamily Sterculioideae
Tribe Sterculieae
W/C = Wild Collected |
Corchorus olitorius L.
- Common Name: Nalta Jute, Tossa Jute
- Family: Malvaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: India
- Habitat: Warm Temperate Thorn through Tropical Desert to Wet Forest Life Zones
- Description: Annual, much-branched herb 90-120 cm tall; stems glabrous. Leaves 6-10 cm long, 3.5-5 cm broad, elliptic-lanceolate, apically acute or acuminate, glabrous, serrate, the lower serratures on each side prolonged into a filiform appendage over 6 mm long, rounded at the base, 3-5 nerved; petioles 2-2.5 cm long, slightly pubescent, especially towards the apex; atipules subulate, 6-10 mm long. Flowers pale yellow; bracts lanceolate; peduncle shorter than the petiole; pedicles 1-3, very short. Sepals ca 3 mm long, oblong, apiculate. Petals 5 mm long, oblong spathulate. Style short; stigma microscopically papillose. Capsules 3-6.5 cm long, linear, cylindric erect, beaked, glabrous, 10-ribbed, 5-valved; valves with transverse partitions between the seeds. Seeds trigonous, black (Kirtikar and Basu, 1975).
- Uses: While perhaps better known as a fiber crop, jute is also a medicinal "vegetable", eaten from Tanganyika to Egypt. They are used in soups under the Arabic name "Molukhyia." In India the leaves and tender shoots are eaten. The dried material is there known as "nalita." Injections of olitoriside markedly improve cardiac insufficiencies and have no cumulative attributes; hence, it can serve as a substitute for strophanthin.
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Accession Data:- Accession # 200700053
- Source: Jardin Botanique De La Gacilly 2007 Index Seminum
- Accession Date: 03-19-2007
- Bench: 3301 - E Bench
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-25-2012
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid II
- Order: Malvales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Malvaceae
- SubFamily: Grewioideae
- Tribe: Sparrmannieae
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References:James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished. Adapted from New Crops Website at Purdue - last visited 04/19/02
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