Corchorus

Accepted species 75 Documented here 16 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 75 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Corchorus aestuans L. 104 documented
Corchorus hirsutus L. 48 documented
Corchorus siliquosus L. 44 documented
Corchorus kirkii N.E.Br. 18 documented
Corchorus olitorius L. 16 documented
Corchorus cunninghamii F.Muell. 15 documented
Corchorus confusus Wild 13 documented
Corchorus tridens L. 11 documented
Corchorus capsularis L. 10 documented
Corchorus erodioides Balf.f. 6 documented
Corchorus fascicularis Lam. 6 documented
Corchorus orinocensis Kunth 4 documented
Corchorus depressus (L.) Stocks 3 documented
Corchorus depressus (L.) Peterm. 3 documented
Corchorus hirtus L. 3 documented
Corchorus pumilio R.Br. ex Benth. 3 documented
Corchorus africanus Bari 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus angolensis Exell & Mendonça 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus aquaticus Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus argillicola Moeaha & P.J.D.Winter 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus aspleniifolius Burch. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus aulacocarpus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus baldaccii Mattei 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus brevicornutus Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus carnarvonensis Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus chrozophorifolius (Baill.) Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus cinerascens Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus congener Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus deccanensis H.B.Singh & M.V.Viswan. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus drysdalensis R.L.Barrett 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus elachocarpus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus elderi F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus fitzroyensis S.J.Dillon & K.A.Sheph. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus foliosus Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus gillettii Bari 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus hygrophilus A.Cunn. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus incanus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus junodi (Schinz) N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus laniflorus Rye 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus lasiocarpus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus leptocarpus A.Cunn. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus longipedunculatus Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus macropetalus (F.Muell.) Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus macropterus G.J.Leach & Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus merxmuelleri Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus mitchellensis Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus neocaledonicus Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus obclavatus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus parviflorus (Benth.) Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus parvifolius Sebsebe 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus pascuorum Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus pinnatipartitus Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus psammophilus Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus pseudo-olitorius Islam & Zaid 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus pseudocapsularis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus puberulus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus reynoldsiae Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus saxatilis Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus schimperi Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus sericeus Ewart & O.B.Davies 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus siamensis Craib 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus sidoides F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus subargentus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus sublatus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus sulcatus I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus tectus Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus thozetii Halford 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus tiniannensis Hosok. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus tirunelveliensis Kalaiselvan, Selvak. & Rajakumar 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus tomentellus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus torresianus Gaudich. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus trilocularis L. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus urticifolius Wight & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus velutinus Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Corchorus walcottii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.