Corchorus [SEP] parent taxon
cm long, with an acuminate tip and a finely serrated or lobed margin. The flowers are small (2–3 cm diameter) and yellow, with five petals; the fruit is a many-seeded capsule.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Corchorus" is classified under the subfamily Grewioideae of the family Malvaceae. It contains around 40 to 100 species.
The genus "Oceanopapaver", previously of uncertain placement, has recently been synonymized under "Corchorus". The name was established by Guillaumin in 1932 for
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of