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Cassia pubescens

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Name

Identification
Cassia pubescens Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cassia sophera
  • Senna clavigera
  • Cassia reticulata
  • Cassia tomentosa
  • Cassia barclayana
  • Cassia pubescens

Flora

Entry for Cassia holosericea Fresen. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
Cassia holosericea Fresen. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in. Flora, 1839, 34. Batka, Monog. Senna, t. iv.
Senna ovalifolia [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Cassia pubescens R. Br. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Salt, Abyss. App. 64;
Cassia Schimperi Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Nom. Bot.;
Cassia cana Wenderoth [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Linnæa, xii. 22.
Information
Shrubby; entire plant usually clothed with a very short rather dense or subvelvety pubescence. Branches ascending, terete, striate. Leaves 5–8-jugate, common petiole eglandular or glands rudimentary; leaflets broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse entire or retuse mucronulate, closely velvety-pubescent above and below, very shortly petiolulate; 1/2–1 in. long. Stipules subulate, spreading, somewhat rigid, 1 1/2–2 lines long. Racemes erect, falling short of the leaves. Flowers apparently as in C. obtusifolia and C. acutifolia. Legumes flat, broadly falcate-oblong, rounded at the extremity with an oblique mucro indicating the style-base; 1–1 1/4 in. long, 6–7 lines broad; valves thinly chartaceous, pubescent, unappendaged.
Range
Also in Arabia and eastward to Scinde.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Salt! Rüppell!Nubia Nile Land Schweinfurth!
Notes
For further synonymy see Batka's “Monographie d. Senna.”

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