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Cassia beareana

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Identification
Cassia beareana unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] Verified by Brenan, J.P.M., Cassia abbreviata Oliv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] Cassia abbreviata Oliv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Brenan, J.M.P.,
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  • Cassia beareana
  • Cassia unrecorded
  • Cassia abbreviata

Flora

Entry for CASSIA abbreviata (Holmes) Brenan subsp. beareana [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
CASSIA abbreviata (Holmes) Brenan subsp. beareana [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in K.B. 13: 232 (1958); K.T.S.: 100 (1961). Type: East Africa (locality uncertain), O’Sullivan Beare (London, Pharmaceutical Society, holo. !, K, fragments !)
CASSIA beareana Holmes [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Pharm. Journ. 68 (ser. 4, 14): 42 (1902); L.T.A.: 631 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 98 (1949)
Information
Branchlets pubescent or puberulous. Leaflets normally (always in East Africa) puberulous beneath with minute inconspicuous appressed straight hairs often only 0.1 mm. long. Axis of inflorescence normally (always in East Africa) with very short spreading pubescence. Petals 1.8–3 × 0.9–1.5 cm. Pods densely puberulous to sometimes glabrous (as in the type).
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 4, 6 and South West Africa
Altitude range
460–1200 m. (probably occurs at lower altitudes also)
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kibarani, 23 Feb. 1945, Jeffery 96 !KENYA Lamu District Kiunga, 5 Dec. 1946, J. Adamson 280 in Bally 5971 !TANGANYIKA Handeni District Sindeni Hills, 14 Sept. 1933, B. D. Burtt 4830!TANGANYIKA Mpanda District Mlala Hills, 27 Oct. 1959, Richards 11574!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District 9 Nov. 1932, Wallace 443 !
Distribution (external)
; Congo Republic
Somali Republic (S.)
Mozambique
Zambia
Rhodesia
Botswana
the Transvaal
Notes
J. Adamson 280 in Herb. Bally 5971 in C.M. 18108 (EA!, K !), Kenya, Kiunga, shows a pod (with the EA specimen) which is sparsely puberulous or subglabrous.

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