| Corchorus depressus (L.) Stocks, it is a prostrate, glabrous perennial, up to 30 cm long, spreading branches from the woody rootstock. Leaves with up to 2.5 cm long, filiform hairy, petiole, lamina 3-nerveu, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4-18 (-20) x 2-9 mm, crenate-serrate, without basal setnse appendages, obtuse, stipules linear-falcate, c. 2 mm long. Cymcs 2 (-1)-flowered, leaf-opposed, Flowers 6-8 mm across yellow, bracts linear. Sepals linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long, acute, Petals obovate-spathulate, equaling sepals, obtuse. Stamens 8-10, ovary tetracarpellary, 4-locular, style as long as the ovary with 4-lobed stigma. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, up to 20 x 2 mm, ± curved with c. 2 mm long beak, 4-luculed, lucules transversally septise. Seeds brackish-grey, 1-1.5 mm long, obliquely-truncate. Life Form: H, Flowering in: Feb-May, Vern:———–, Phytochoria: Pal, The native range of this species is Macaronesia to India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60476848-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/60476848-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000620047, https://www.gbif.org/species/8129124, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/121608/corchorus-depressus-l-stocks, https://www.floraofqatar.com/corchorus_depressus.htm, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/malvaceae/corchorus-depressus |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Al-Uwinat |
| Gebel Uweinat 1968 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Tiliaceae Vol. (19) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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