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Cassia occidentalis

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Identification
Isotype of Cassia quadrangularis Zollinger & Moritzi [family CAESALPINIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Zollinger & Moritzi, 1854 Cassia occidentalis Linnaeus [family CAESALPINIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Cassia quadrangularis Zollinger & Moritzi [family CAESALPINIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Cassia laevigata Willdenow [family CAESALPINIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Cassia planisiliqua
  • Cassia occidentalis
  • Senna scabriuscula
  • Senna hirsuta
  • Cassia laevigata
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  • Cassia tora
  • Cassia quadrangularis
  • Cassia unrecorded
  • Senna occidentalis
  • Cassia not on sheet
Common name
  • café nègre; café des noirs; faux kinkéliba (false kinkeliba, Combretum micranthum G Don, Combretaceae); feuille de Paradis (leaf of Paradise, Casamance, Senegal, Kerharo & Adam); casse-café (Bailleul)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • negro coffee; coffee senna; Nigerian senna; stink weed; stinking pea., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for CASSIA occidentalis Linn. [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 occidentalis Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Sp. 539;—DC. Prod. 2, p. 497. Sloane, Hist. Jam. t. 175, f. 3, 4. Bot. Reg. t. 83.
CASSIA Natalensis Sond. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Information
suffruticose, ciliate; leaflets 4–6-jugate, ovato- or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; petiole with a tubercular gland above the base; peduncles very short, 2–4-flowered, the lowest axillary, the rest in a short, terminal raceme; legumes linear, elongate, glabrescent, plano-compressed, with thick margins. A common West Indian plant, now naturalized in several parts of the tropics. Nearly glabrous. Petioles pale, 4–6 inches long, bearing leaflets for half that length; leaflets 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, the lowest smallest. Flowers little conspicuous, pale yellow. Legume 3–4 inches long, brown, with pale margins.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Natal (probably naturalized), Gueinzius! (Herb. Sd.)

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