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Cassia tomentosa

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Name

Identification
Cassia tomentosa L.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Senna morongii
  • Cassia acinacicarpa
  • Senna aurantia
  • Cassia wightiana
  • Cassia tomentosa
  • Senna septemtrionalis
  • Cassia procumbens
  • Cassia not on sheet
  • Cassia hirsuta
  • Cassia pubescens

Flora

Entry for CASSIA tomentosa Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CASSIA tomentosa Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Dict. 1, p. 647;—DC. Prod. 2, p. 496.
CASSIA multiglandulosa Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Ic. Rar. t. 72. Sieb. Fl. Cap. No. 153.
Information
a tomentose shrub; leaflets 6–8-jugate, oval-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, puberulous or glabrate above, cano-tomentose beneath; petiole with a tubercular gland between each pair; stipules inconspicuous; peduncles short, 2–4-flowered; ovary woolly; legume linear, acute, compressed, villoso-tomentose. A South American species, often cultivated and now naturalized in several warm countries. All the young parts velvetty-tomentose. Leaflets 1–1 1/4 inch long, 3–4 lines wide. Flowers bright yellow. Legume 4–5 inches long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Naturalized? S. Africa, Sieber! Simon's Bay, C. Wright! Grahamstown, General Bolton! (Herb. Sd., D.)

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