Cassia L.
Distribution
Native to:
Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Egypt, Galápagos, Hawaii, Iraq, Laccadive Is., Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Pakistan, Society Is., Sulawesi, Yemen
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Bactyrilobium Willd. in Enum. Pl.: 439 (1809)
- Cassiana Raf. in Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 1: 266 (1818)
- Mac-leayia Montrouz. in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., sér. 2, 10: 198 (1860)
Accepted Species
- Cassia abbreviata Oliv.
- Cassia afrofistula Brenan
- Cassia angolensis Welw. ex Hiern
- Cassia arereh Delile
- Cassia artensis Beauvis.
- Cassia aubrevillei Pellegr.
- Cassia bakeriana Craib
- Cassia brewsteri (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Cassia burttii Baker f.
- Cassia cowanii H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- Cassia eremophila A.Cunn. ex Vogel
- Cassia fastuosa Willd. ex Vogel
- Cassia ferruginea (Schrad.) DC.
- Cassia fikifiki Aubrév. & Pellegr.
- Cassia fistula L.
- Cassia grandis L.f.
- Cassia hintonii Sandwith
- Cassia hippophallus Capuron
- Cassia javanica L.
- Cassia johannae Vatke
- Cassia lancangensis Y.Y.Qian
- Cassia leiandra Benth.
- Cassia leptophylla Vogel
- Cassia mannii Oliv.
- Cassia marksiana (F.M.Bailey) Domin
- Cassia midas H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- Cassia moschata Kunth
- Cassia mystacicarpa Rizzini & Heringer
- Cassia psilocarpa Welw.
- Cassia queenslandica C.T.White
- Cassia × regia Standl.
- Cassia roxburghii DC.
- Cassia rubriflora Ducke
- Cassia sieberiana DC.
- Cassia spruceana Benth.
- Cassia swartzioides Ducke
- Cassia thyrsoidea Brenan
- Cassia tomentella (Benth.) Domin
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 503–591 (1871).
- —F.T.A. 2: 268
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 178 (1754).
- Irwin & Barneby in Polhill & Raven, Adv. Legume Syst. 1: 97–106 (1981)
- Sp. Pl.: 376 (1753)
- in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 1–918 (1982).
Flora of Somalia
- Adumbr. 22: 1–99 (1971).
- Bentham in Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 503–592 (1871)
- Brenan in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1967)
- Brenan in Kew Bull. 13: 231–252 (1958)
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Irwin & Barneby in Adv. Leg. Syst.: 97–106 (1981)
- Irwin & Barneby in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35 (1982)
- Lock in Kew Bull. 43: 333–342 (1988)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 178 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 376 (1753)
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Owens, S.J., USA | 52811.000 | No | |||
Pennington, T.D. [12340], Peru | 53646.000 | No | |||
Heringer, E.P. [2877], Brazil | K000841412 | Yes | |||
Heringer, E.P. [5833], Brazil | K000841413 | Yes |
Sources
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Somalia
- Flora of Somalia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Legumes of the World Online
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0