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Herbs or small shrubs, sometimes with annual stems from a woody rootstock, with simple or stellate hairs. Stipules lateral, usually setaceous or subacute. Leaves alternate, usually with a long bristle on either side near the base. Flowers in bracteate pedunculate cymes, ± opposite the leaves. Sepals 4-5, usually narrow. Petals yellow. Stamens 7 to many. Ovary 2-5-locular. Fruit (in ours) a cylindric, rarely narrowly ovoid (kirkii), capsule, loculicidally 2-5-valved. Derivation of name: from the Greek: khorkhorus, referring to jute, the fibre made from plants of this genus. Worldwide: 100 species in the tropics. Botswana: 8 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| asplenifolius Burch. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| confusus Wild | SE | Description |
| kirkii N.E. Br. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| longipedunculatus Mast. | Description, Image | |
| olitorius L. | Description, Image | |
| schimperi Cufod. | Description, Image | |
| tridens L. | N | Description, Image |
| trilocularis L. | Description, Image |
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