Corchorus aestuans L. - jute
Corchorus aestuans L. - jute
MH022 : Corchorus aestuans L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 51 |
| Synonym | : | Corchorus acutangulus auct. non Forsk. (1775); Lam.;
Corchorus fuscus Roxb.;
Corchorus oppositiflorus Hassk.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Jute, mallow; West African mallow, East Indian mallow, Chonch, Hade-ka-khet |
| Plant Family | : | Malvaceae / Tiliaceae |
| Description | : | Erect or spreading, (10-) 20-60 cm tall, much branched, annual herb. Stem and branches purple, pilose. Leaves 3-5-costate, costae hairy to almost glabrous, lanceolate to ovate, 2-9.5 cm long, 1-5 cm broad, oblique or obtuse at the base, serrate, basal serratures prolonged into setaceous appendages or not, glabrous except the hairy to glabrescent costae, acute; petiole 0.5-3(-4) cm long, purple, pilose; stipules setaceous, 5-7 mm long, pilose, purplish green. Cyme antiphyllous, very shortly pedunculate, mostly 2, rarely 3-flowered. Flowers golden yellow, c. 1 cm across, pedicel c. 2 mm long, jointed; bracts akin to stipules, 4-6 mm long, purple. Sepals linear-oblong, c. 4 mm long, hooded and awned at the apex, purple dotted outside, green within, glabrous. Petals obovate, 3.5-5 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, obtuse, hairy at the base. Stamens (12-) 30, filaments c. 3 mm long. Carpels 3; ovary oblong-cylindric, c. 1.5-2 mm long, minutely hairy, 3-loculed, truncate above; style 3-fid, c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas bilobed. Capsules solitary or paired, with 3 fairly stout wings, (10-) 15-25 mm long, c. 4-6 mm in diameter, truncate and terminating in 3, bifid, radiating, 3-7 mm long beaks at apex, 3-loculed, locules transversely septate or aseptate. Seeds blackish-brown, angular, rough, obliquely truncate at both ends. Fl. Per.: August-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On hill slopes,in stream and river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Extracts of the roots or leaves were taken for the treatment of gonorrhea, the leaves were used for headache, and the seeds, in the form of powder or in decoction, as a tonic, carminative and febrifuge and seeds used as stomachic, as anti-inflammatory and for the treatment of pneumonia |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; palmitic acid; stearic acid; oleic acid; linolenic acid;
Corchorine; Quercetine; Lupeol; betulin; 2-methyl anthraquinone; Scopoletin; Corchoroside-A; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Betulin; Palmitic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200013573 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Ali Esmail Al-Snafi; "The Constituents and Pharmacology of Corchorus aestuans: A Review"; The Pharmaceutical and Chemical Journal (2016); 3(4):208-214 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Dilleniidae |
| Order | : Malvales |
| Family | : Malvaceae / Tiliaceae - Linden family |
| Genus | : Corchorus L. - corchorus |
| Species | : Corchorus aestuans L. - jute |