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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Corchorus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Corchorus

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Malvanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 242. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Malvales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 43. 1829.       Subordo  Tiliineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: lxxxv. Jul 1841.       Familia  Tiliaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 289. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Linden       Genus  Corchorus L. common name: corchorus

Named members of the Genus Corchorus

1	Species  acutangulus Lam. syn. Corchorus aestuans
2	Species  aestuans L. common name: jute
3	Species  capsularis L. common name: jute
4	Species  hirsutus L. common name: jackswitch
5	Species  hirtus L.
	6    Varietas  glabellus Gray syn. Corchorus hirtus 7    Varietas  orinocensis (Kunth) K. Schum. syn. Corchorus hirtus
8	Species  olitorius L. common name: nalta jute
9	Species  orinocensis Kunth syn. Corchorus hirtus
10	Species  siliquosus L. common name: slippery burr
11	Species  tridens L. common name: tridens corchorus
12	Species  trilocularis L. common name: threelocule corchorus

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.