Taxon:
Corchorus olitorius L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:529. 1753
Verified:
11/01/1985
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
- Babu, C. R. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. 1977
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968
- Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999-
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
- Colmenero Robles, J. A. et al. 2010. El género Corchorus (Tiliaceae) en México. Polibotanica 29:42-44. http://www.herbario.encb.ipn.mx/pb/eng/frame_en.htm
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
- Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
- Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
- Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. Flora of southern Africa. 1963-
- Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
- Halford, D. A. 1995. Notes on Tiliaceae in Australia 2. A revision of the simple-haired species of the genus Corchorus L.. Austrobaileya 4:300-302.
- Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979
- International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
- Li, H. L. et al., eds. Flora of Taiwan. 1975-1979
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. Flora of India. 1993-
- Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
- Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Jew's-mallow – Nalta jute – tossa jute – Arabic
meloukhia – French
corète potagère – German
Langkapseljute – Italian
juta – Portuguese
juta – Spanish
yute – Swedish
tossajute – Transcribed Chinese
chang shuo huang ma –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Pakistan | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | possibly native elsewhere in tropical Asia |
Native
Asia-Tropical
-
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Pakistan
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(possibly native elsewhere in tropical Asia)
Economic Uses
Human food
Materials
fiber (fide Pl Book; Dict Econ Pl) – Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2) – Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed) –