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Cassia sieberiana

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Name

Identification
Cassia sieberiana DC. [family CAESALPINIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia sieberiana
Common name
  • habilek (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • African laburnum; West African laburnum; drumstick tree (Dalziel)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • a-kéj˚ékéé (K&A) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • casse du Sénégal; casse de Siéber (Berhaut); casse flûte (Bailleul)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • si resakol (JB) si sãtã (JB) si sindiã (JB) sidiâ (K&A) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • sindian from Bambara (K&A) (SENEGAL, VULGAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • dzoâdzé (K&A) faôté (K&A) misavsé (JB) ndõgõzé (JB) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • sindiã (JB) (SENEGAL, BADYARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for CASSIA Sieberiana DC. [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 Sieberiana DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Prod. ii. 489. Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 259.
Cathartocarpus conspicuus Don [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Gen. Syst. ii. 453 fide Fl. Nigrit. 324.
Information
A small tree, glabrous or the extremities and rachis of the leaves and inflorescence puberulous. Leaflets in 6–14 pairs, varying with fewer and probably more, ovate-elliptical oblong or occasionally ovate-rotundate, obtuse entire or emarginate or broadly pointed and acute, base rounded or broadly cuneate, venulose-reticulate and shining above, paler and sometimes thinly puberulous beneath, at least on the midrib, 1 1/4–3 1/2 in. long, 1–2 in. broad; petiolule 2 lines; common petiole without glands, finely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 5–12 in. long in our specimens. Racemes from 4 or 5–18 in. long. Bracts usually present during flowering, linear or linear-lanceolate, from 1/3– 2/3 in. long; bracteoles subulate, much shorter. Pedicels patent or the lower deflexed, 1 1/4 in. to nearly 2 in. long. Sepals obtuse, 3–4 lines long. Petals broadly elliptical or ovate-elliptical, obtuse, unguiculate, 3/4–1 in. long. Filaments of three longer stamens exceeding the petals, filiform or slightly thicker above than at the base; the other stamens shorter than the petals. Ovary puberulous or pubescent. Legume elongate, subterete, with scarcely prominent sutures.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Sieber! Heudelot!Upper Guinea Cayor, and on the Gambia (Guill. et Perr.).Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Don! Bagroo river (leaflets broadly pointed), Mann! (? A form with caducous bracts, Niger, Barter!)
Notes
Dr. Schweinfurth and Ascherson cite this species as occurring in Kordofan in their enumeration of Nile land plants. Very nearly allied to this species is C. Fistula, very common in gardens in all tropical countries, and occasionally sent home by collectors from settlements in Tropical Africa. So far as our material enables us to judge, it differs chiefly from C. Sieberiana in its minute bracts, which are caducous long before expansion of the flowers, so that the inflorescence is usually described as ebracteate. The leaflets of C. Fistula are usually larger, varying to 4–6 in. in length; and the cylindrical smooth indehiscent legumes sometimes reach 3 ft. in length. The plant from the Niger cited above may be a small-leaved form of C. Fistula. The Bagroo form resembles, as to leaves, C. nodosa, Ham., the thickly dilated filaments of the 3 longer stamens and the shorter lateral racemes distinguish this species however. Cassia psilocarpa, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. No. 40, may be C. Sieberiana .

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