• Family : TILIACEAE
  (Linden Or Jute Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Basionym : Antichorus depressus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Corchorus depressus (L.) Stocks
• Vernacular name : Bahuphali, Mudiri (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional along river banks
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Aurangabad district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : India, West Asia, Tropical Africa, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Gamble, 1915. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 1. pp. 121.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Corchorus depressus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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