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Cassia burttii

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Name

Identification
Cassia burttii Baker f. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia burttii

Flora

Entry for CASSIA burttii Bak. f. [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 burttii Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in J.B. 73: 80 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 96 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Wami Road, B. D. Burtt 5032 (BM, holo.!, EA, FHO, K, iso.!)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1–6 m. high. Young branchlets minutely and inconspicuously puberulous. Leaves with petiole and rhachis eglandular, the latter 15–24 cm. long. Leaflets in 5–8 pairs, petiolulate, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 3.5–10(–12) cm. long, 1.8–4.6(–7) cm. wide, minutely and inconspicuously appressed-puberulous beneath. Racemes 15–50 cm. long, pendulous, simple or branched, mostly lateral. Bracts falling while the buds are young. Petals white, 1–2.4 cm. long, 0.6–1.2 cm. wide. Stamens 10; filaments of 3 lower each with an S-bend near base and an abrupt conspicuous swelling above the bend. Pods ± 60 cm. long, 1–1.5 cm. in diameter, similar to those of 7, C. afrofistula. Seeds embedded in pulp, chestnut-brown, ovate-orbicular or suborbicular, 8–10 × 7–9 × 3–5 mm., with slight reticulate cracking.
Range
DISTR. T6, 8
Altitude range
15–800 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Kilosa District Kidodi, Oct. 1952, Semsei 1000!TANGANYIKA Morogoro, Dec. 1953, Eggeling 6774 !TANGANYIKA Lindi District about 72 km. W. of Lindi and 8 km. W. of Mtana near Nyangao R., 14 Dec. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7650!
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique
Notes
The long gracefully drooping racemes of white-petalled flowers make this a most elegant and attractive plant. It hybridizes with C. abbreviata; see after the latter.

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