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Cassia bicapsularis

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Name

Identification
Senna pendula H.S.Irwin & Barneby [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Cassia bicapsularis Chodat & Hassl. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia coluteoides
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  • Cassia quadrijuga
  • Senna pendula
  • Cassia bahamensis
  • Adipera bicapsularis
  • Cassia bicapsularis
  • Cassia pendula
  • Senna mexicana
  • Cassia foetidissima
  • Senna bicapsularis
  • Cassia tora
  • Cassia not on sheet
Common name
  • fula-bσta i.e., Fula butter (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KRIO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for SENNA bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SENNA bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1832);
Cassia bicapsularis L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Spreading shrub, 1–3(–9) m high, glabrous in Somalia. Leaves 4–10 cm long, with a clavate or subglobose gland between lowest pair of leaflets; stipules minute; leaflets (2–)3 pairs, obovate-elliptic to subcircular, 1–3(–4) x 0.7–2(–2.5) cm, rounded at apex. Racemes elongate, axillary, 3–15-flowered. Sepals rounded at apex. Petals yellow or orange, obovate, 1–1.3 cm long. Stamens: 3 lower with large anthers, central with short, laterals with longer filaments; 4 with medium-sized anthers and very short filaments; 3 upper with reduced anthers, at least the lateral ones obhastate. Pods cylindrical, (5–)8–15 x 1–1.5 cm, not or tardily dehiscent, with thin transverse septa within. Seeds many, olive-brown, elliptic to subreniform, 5–6 x 3.5–4.5 mm, without clearly marked areoles.
Range
N1, 2; S2, 3 native of the West Indies and South America.
Altitude range
up to c. 1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 3770; Wood S/73/14; Hansen & Heemstra 6137.
Notes
Rambling cassia (Eng.).

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