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Cassia singueana

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Name

Identification
Cassia singueana Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia singueana
Common name
  • lomfu (Aub.) (NIGER, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • guéléponsgo (Aub.) (UPPER VOLTA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • pintcheira do mato (EPdS) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • rumbu (Aub.) (NIGER, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • shadarat al bashime (Aub.) (NIGER, ARABIC (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • shadarat al bashime (JMD; KO&S) shedrat el (NIGERIA, ARABIC-SHUWA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Cassia singueana [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cassia singueana [family FABACEAE]
Common names
C. goratensis Fresen. in Flora 22 : 53 (1839); Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 273 (1871); Bak. f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 634 (1930). Type: Ethiopia, Rueppell (FR, holo.). C. zanzibarensis Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30 : 77 (1880); Bak. f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 635 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Bagamoyo distr., River Wami & River Kingoni, Hildebrandt 904 (B holo.; BM).
Information
Small tree or shrub 1-6 m high with spreading, rounded, ± open crown ± 2 m in diameter. Trunk to 15 cm across, with dark grey, rough bark irregularly longi­tudinally fissured; slash light brown, yellow within. Stems of branchlets faintly longi­tudinally ridged to terete, young apices densely pubescent with curled white hairs interspersed among minute ones forming an underlayer, becoming sparsely pubescent and glabrous as bark develops. Leaves: petiole and rhachis 4-30 cm long; stipules subulate, ± 5 mm long, ±0,3 mm wide, caducous; petiole 1,5-5 cm long including basal pulvinus, petiolar gland lacking, rhachis channelled, with a stalked, fusiform to elliptic, deciduous gland between each pair of leaflets, sometimes excepting the terminal; leaflets in (3—)5—10 pairs, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, (l,3-)2-5,2 cm long, 0,7-2,5 cm wide, uppermost pair not largest, bases slightly asymmetric, rounded, apices rounded and acuminate to emar-ginate, margins slightly thickened, surfaces with scattered straight to curved appressed hairs. Inflorescences many-flowered, corym­bose panicles (occasionally simple racemes), axillary and crowded to the ends of branches; peduncles at flowering and fruiting up to 3 cm long; bracts rounded to elliptic, ± 6 mm in width, densely pubescent, caducous, each with two stipitate fusiform to linear glands in the position of stipules; pedicels at flowering up to 5 cm long, glandular. Sepals obtuse, densely pubescent abaxially. Petals unequal, obovate to suborbicular, stalked, 1,5-3,5 cm long, 1,2-1,7 cm wide, deep yellow, brown-veined. Stamens 10: 3 staminodal (adaxial) flattened to ± round, -t 5 mm long including filament, 7 functional (4 lateral medium, 3 abaxial large, filaments ± 1,3 cm long, dorsifixed, dehiscence porose. Ovaries ± pubescent or glabrous; style straight; stigma hollow, fringed with short white hairs. Pods subcylindric, torulose, straight or slightly twisted, 5,5-25 cm long, 0,7-1 cm wide, septate, apex often beaked, valves stiff and hard, ± pubescent or glabrous, yellow-brown at maturity, indehiscent. Seeds laterally com­pressed, i round in outline, 5-6 mm in diameter, testa dull brown, areole on each lateral face, narrowly elliptic, 2-2,5 mm long, 1-1,5 mm wide. Fig. 16 : 15; 18 : 15; 19 : 15.
Habitat
Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Caesalp. : 75 (1967), summarised the variation known within this species in tropical Africa. Among characters mentioned were presence or lack of an indumentum, and a range in leaflet shape. The South West African specimens are densely pubescent in the young parts becoming more or less glabrescent with age. The leaflets are generally fairly broadly elliptic and leathery and pubescent to glabrescent with appressed hairs. In Rhodesia plants are glabrous or almost so. The species often produces flowers when leafless and is reputed to bloom more than once a year, but the latter may be no more than unco-ordinated flowering in plants of a local area. Flowers are fragrant and spectacular.
Use
15. Cassia sinqueana Del., Cent. PI. Afr. 28 (1826); Del. in Caillaud, Voy. a M6roe 4 : 27 (1827); Steyaert in F.C.B. 3 : 509 (1952); Mendonca & Torre in C.F.A. 2 : 179 (1956); Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs 102, t. 8 (1961); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 120 (1962); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Caesalp. : 73, fig. 13 (1967); Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 59 : 12 (1967); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S.Afr. 2 : 885 (1973). Type: Ethiopia, Singue [Jebel Singe], Caillaud (MPU, holo.).
Range
This tropical species represented in the Comoro Islands and widespread in Africa, except in rain forest regions, from Ethiopia southwards to Mozam­bique, Rhodesia and Angola, only just reaches the Flora area by extending into the Kaokoveld in northern South West Africa.

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