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CASSIA Petersiana C. Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 Petersiana C. Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 13.
Information
Shrub; extremities rachis of the leaves and peduncles thinly pubescent puberulous or glabrate. Leaves 5–10 in. long; leaflets usually 6–9-jugate, broadly lanceolate ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous and reticulate above, paler with sparse adpressed short hairs or glabrescent beneath, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, shortly petiolulate; common petiole thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous, with a linear or subconical gland between the leaflets, which would seem to be occasionally either deciduous or obsolete. Stipules half-cordiform or -reniform, sessile, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, deciduous or partially persisting. Flowers in simple or branched corymbs or short racemes, terminal and from the upper axils, forming irregular leafy or much bracteate panicles at the ends of the branches. Bracts pubescent, the lower broadly rotundate, subcordate, apiculate, the upper ovate, cymbiform, with thickened gland-like curved bracteoles; the principal branches of the inflorescence subtended by rudimentary or obsolete leaves, the broad stipules of which are often fully developed. Pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 in., pubescent or puberulous. Sepals very unequal, the two outer much smaller, thinly pubescent, three inner subpetaloid. Petals clawed, the posterior smaller; anterior exceeding the stamens. Three anterior anthers much larger, linear, curved, 3–4 lines long; four intermediate dehiscing by terminal pores, three posterior abortive, cordate or ovate. Ovary silky-pubescent. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Quirimba and Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Near Senna, Dr. Kirk! Lower Shire Valley, Dr. Meller!Abyssinia Nile Land (a robust pubescent form, the longer clawed elliptic-obovate petals exceeding 1 in.), Schimper!
Notes
C. Delagoensis, Harv. (Fl. Capensis, ii. 272), found at Natal and Delagoa Bay, is a near ally of this species, differing, apparently, in its much smaller, narrower, and more numerous leaflets, with obscure venation. We have a single specimen in flower only from Zambesi (Dr. Kirk), apparently very nearly allied to C. Petersiana, having the same stipules, but the bracts are caducous long before expansion of the flowers, and the leaflets thinly pubescent above are distinctly though minutely sericeous beneath. The corymbose tawny-pubescent racemes are collected into a large terminal almost leafless panicle.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 Petersiana C. Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 13.
Information
Shrub; extremities rachis of the leaves and peduncles thinly pubescent puberulous or glabrate. Leaves 5–10 in. long; leaflets usually 6–9-jugate, broadly lanceolate ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous and reticulate above, paler with sparse adpressed short hairs or glabrescent beneath, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, shortly petiolulate; common petiole thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous, with a linear or subconical gland between the leaflets, which would seem to be occasionally either deciduous or obsolete. Stipules half-cordiform or -reniform, sessile, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, deciduous or partially persisting. Flowers in simple or branched corymbs or short racemes, terminal and from the upper axils, forming irregular leafy or much bracteate panicles at the ends of the branches. Bracts pubescent, the lower broadly rotundate, subcordate, apiculate, the upper ovate, cymbiform, with thickened gland-like curved bracteoles; the principal branches of the inflorescence subtended by rudimentary or obsolete leaves, the broad stipules of which are often fully developed. Pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 in., pubescent or puberulous. Sepals very unequal, the two outer much smaller, thinly pubescent, three inner subpetaloid. Petals clawed, the posterior smaller; anterior exceeding the stamens. Three anterior anthers much larger, linear, curved, 3–4 lines long; four intermediate dehiscing by terminal pores, three posterior abortive, cordate or ovate. Ovary silky-pubescent. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Quirimba and Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Near Senna, Dr. Kirk! Lower Shire Valley, Dr. Meller!Abyssinia Nile Land (a robust pubescent form, the longer clawed elliptic-obovate petals exceeding 1 in.), Schimper!
Notes
C. Delagoensis, Harv. (Fl. Capensis, ii. 272), found at Natal and Delagoa Bay, is a near ally of this species, differing, apparently, in its much smaller, narrower, and more numerous leaflets, with obscure venation. We have a single specimen in flower only from Zambesi (Dr. Kirk), apparently very nearly allied to C. Petersiana, having the same stipules, but the bracts are caducous long before expansion of the flowers, and the leaflets thinly pubescent above are distinctly though minutely sericeous beneath. The corymbose tawny-pubescent racemes are collected into a large terminal almost leafless panicle.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 Petersiana C. Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 13.
Information
Shrub; extremities rachis of the leaves and peduncles thinly pubescent puberulous or glabrate. Leaves 5–10 in. long; leaflets usually 6–9-jugate, broadly lanceolate ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous and reticulate above, paler with sparse adpressed short hairs or glabrescent beneath, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, shortly petiolulate; common petiole thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous, with a linear or subconical gland between the leaflets, which would seem to be occasionally either deciduous or obsolete. Stipules half-cordiform or -reniform, sessile, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, deciduous or partially persisting. Flowers in simple or branched corymbs or short racemes, terminal and from the upper axils, forming irregular leafy or much bracteate panicles at the ends of the branches. Bracts pubescent, the lower broadly rotundate, subcordate, apiculate, the upper ovate, cymbiform, with thickened gland-like curved bracteoles; the principal branches of the inflorescence subtended by rudimentary or obsolete leaves, the broad stipules of which are often fully developed. Pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 in., pubescent or puberulous. Sepals very unequal, the two outer much smaller, thinly pubescent, three inner subpetaloid. Petals clawed, the posterior smaller; anterior exceeding the stamens. Three anterior anthers much larger, linear, curved, 3–4 lines long; four intermediate dehiscing by terminal pores, three posterior abortive, cordate or ovate. Ovary silky-pubescent. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Quirimba and Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Near Senna, Dr. Kirk! Lower Shire Valley, Dr. Meller!Abyssinia Nile Land (a robust pubescent form, the longer clawed elliptic-obovate petals exceeding 1 in.), Schimper!
Notes
C. Delagoensis, Harv. (Fl. Capensis, ii. 272), found at Natal and Delagoa Bay, is a near ally of this species, differing, apparently, in its much smaller, narrower, and more numerous leaflets, with obscure venation. We have a single specimen in flower only from Zambesi (Dr. Kirk), apparently very nearly allied to C. Petersiana, having the same stipules, but the bracts are caducous long before expansion of the flowers, and the leaflets thinly pubescent above are distinctly though minutely sericeous beneath. The corymbose tawny-pubescent racemes are collected into a large terminal almost leafless panicle.
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