Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH405 : Corchorus tridens L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -

Synonym : Corchorus burmanni DC.; Corchorus patens Lehm.; Corchorus senegalensis Juss. ex Steud.; Corchorus tridens var. euryphyllus Domin;

Plant Common Name : Horn-Fruited Jute,

Plant Family : Tiliaceae

Description : An erect or suberect, 30-60 cm tall, annual herb. Stem and branches glabrous. Leaves 3-4-costate, oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate or somewhat elliptic-obovate, 1.5-9 cm long, 0.6-2.2 cm broad, glabrous except the sparsely hairy veins, crenate-serrate, basal serratures prolonged into filiform spreading appendages or not, acute; petiole 5-12 mm long, hairy; stipules setaceous, 2-3 mm long. Cyme 1-3(-4)-flowered, antiphyllous, short peduncled. Flowers yellow, c. 1 cm across, subsessile; bracts subulate, 3-4 mm long. Sepals linear-oblong, 4-5 mm long, c. 2 mm broad, apiculate. Petals oblong, 3-4 mm long, c. 2 mm broad, obtuse. Stamens 10-15, filaments 4-5 mm long. Carpels 3; ovary cylindric, sulcate, 3-loculed, hairy; style small, stigma sparsely papillate. Capsules 1-3 together, erect, cylindrical, 1.5-4 cm long, c. 2 mm in diameter, not ribbed, glabrous, terminated by 3 spreading bifid tips, 3-loculed, locules aseptate. Seeds angular, obliquely truncate at both ends, black. Flowering Periods: July-November.

Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara

Medicinal Use / Activity : The decoction of the root and leaves are used for fever, to treat genital ulcers, to prevent Anemia. The extract significantly inhibited the castor oil-induced Diarrhea. treatment for fever

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Heptadecane; Hexadecanoic acid; Eicosanoic acid; Phytol; Tritetracontane; Squalene; beta-amyrin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Squalene;

Squalene;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Londhe, A.N., Watve, A.V. & Ansari, M.Y. 2002. “Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve”. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 385 to 395 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/246453 - https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138340 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Horn_Fruited%20Jute.html - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242421563

Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 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 : Tiliaceae - Linden family
Genus : Corchorus L. - corchorus
Species : Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute

Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute
Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute
Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute
Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute
Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute
Corchorus tridens L. - wild jute