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  • COMMON NAME: Nalta jute, tossa jute.
  • ARABIC: ملوخيه بريه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Corchorus olitorius L.
  • SYNONYMS: Corchorus catharticus, Corchorus decemangularis, Corchorus longicarpus.
  • FAMILY: MALVACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/corchorus_olitorius.htm
Annual herb, erect, glabrous or glabrescent 20-90 cm high or more. Stems erect to ascending, straight and slender, branched. Leaves alternate, serrate, ovate-lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 3-5 nerved at the truncate base with 2 tails or horns near base of blade, acute, 4-8 cm long, 1-4 cm wide; stipules present; petioles 1-4 cm long, pilose. Flowers 1-3 at the nodes on peduncles, opposite leaves and shorter than the petioles. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, 4-8 mm long. Petals 5, 5-10 mm long, yellow, obovate. Stamens many. Capsule 3-6 cm long and about 0.5 cm wide, glabrous, 5-valved, 10-ribbed, beaked. Seeds black, many, angular. Flowering from May to October.
Plantations, roadsides and waste places.
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