Taxon: Corchorus olitorius L.

Common names:

• Jew's-mallow   (Source: F Viti ) – English
  
• Nalta jute   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• tossa jute   (Source: Eur Gard F ) – English
  
• meloukhia   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• chang shuo huang ma   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• corète potagère   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Langkapseljute   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• juta   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• juta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• yute   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tossajute   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Dict Econ Pl; Eur Gard F)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Book; Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan

• widely naturalized in tropics

• possibly native elsewhere in tropical Asia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Colmenero Robles, J. A. et al. 2010. El género Corchorus (Tiliaceae) en México. Polibotanica 29:42–44.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• 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. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Corchorus olitorius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Corchorus olitorius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Corchorus olitorius.

Check other web resources for Corchorus olitorius L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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