Click the number at the start of a key lead to highlight both that lead and its corresponding lead. Click again to show only the two highlighted leads. Click a third time to return to the full key with the selected leads still highlighted.

Click images to enlarge and show more photo credit.

Key to Corchorus

Malvaceae

Corchorus

Copy permalink to share

1 Plants glabrous or sparsely pubescent (the hairs simple, if present).
  2 Capsule 1-2 cm long, angular, winged; seeds < 1 mm long
  2 Capsule 2.5-7 cm long, subterete, not winged; seeds ca. 1 mm long.
    3 Capsule with an attenuate beak; seeds separated by incomplete transverse partitions
    3 Capsule truncate with 4 toothlike projections; seeds no separated by partitions