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Corchorus confusus

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Corchorus confusus Wild [family TILIACEAE]
Type? of Corchorus serraefolius Szyszyl. var. lancifolius [family TILIACEAE]
Type? of Corchorus serraefolius Szyszyl. var. lancifolius [family TILIACEAE]
Filed as Corchorus confusus Wild [family SPARRMANNIACEAE]
Holotype of Corchorus confusus Wild [family TILIACEAE]
Syntype of Corchorus confusus Wild [family TILIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Corchorus confusus Wild [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Corchorus serraefolius Szyszyl. [family TILIACEAE ] Verified by Wild,H., 1958
Related name
  • Corchorus trilocularis
  • Corchorus asplenifolius
  • Corchorus confusus
  • Corchorus serraefolius

Flora

Entry for Corchorus confusus [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Corchorus confusus [family MALVACEAE]
Common names
C. serrifolius Burch. var. lancifolius Szyszyl., Polypet. Thalam. Rehm. 61 (1887), pro parte quoad specim. Reh-mann 4200 (BM; K), nom. nud. C. trilocularis sensu Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1: 257 (1926), pro parte excl. specim. Thorncroft 2058 (K!) et Nelson 381 (K!).
Information
Perennial herb with prostrate or spread­ing branches up to 0,6 mm long; rootstock woody, branchlets, at least when young, with a spreading pubescence not confined to one side of the stem. Leaf-blade up to 70 x 26 mm, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, apex acute or subobtuse, base rounded or slightly cordate, sometimes with a pair of setaceous basal lobes, margin crenate or crenate-serrate, pi­lose on both sides especially on the nerves, hairs not tubercle-based, strongly 3-nerved from the base; petiole up to 8 mm long, setu-lose-pilose on all sides; stipules up to 6 mm long, setaceous, pubescent. Inflorescence of small (1-) 2-3-flowered cymes opposite the upper leaves; peduncles 4-25 mm long, with a patent pubescence on all sides; pedicels similar, up to 8 mm long; bracts setaceous, similar to the stipules. Sepals up to 10 x 1,5 mm, linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceo­late, apex acuminate, setulose-pilose outside. Petals yellow, slightly shorter than the sepals, oblanceolate to obovate, with a short basal claw ciliate on the margin. Androgynophore about 0,5 mm long, extended above into a slightly undulate, glabrous annulus. Stamens filamentous, abo
Habitat
This species has been much confused in herbaria with the widespread introduced annual weed C. trilocula­ris (no. 2) but it cannot be included with this species since it is a perennial. It is possibly of hybrid origin with C. as-plenifolius (below) as one parent and C. trilocularis (no. 2) as the other.
Use
4. Corchorus confusus Wild in Bothalia 7: 422 (1960); F.Z. 2,1: 86 (1963); Wild & Goncalves in F.M. 28: 61 (1969); Ross, Fl. Natal 240 (1972). Type: Transvaal, Kruger National Park, Codd & De Winter 4960 (K, holo.!;PRE!).
Range
A species common on koppies or in lowveld bush on sandy or basaltic soils. Known from the Transvaal, Natal, north-eastern Cape and Swaziland, and also in Mozambi­que and Zimbabwe. Map 19.

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