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Cassia abbreviata ssp. beareana (Holmes)Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Cassia L.

Cassia abbreviata ssp. beareana (Holmes)Brenan [Preferred name]
    Cassia beareana Holmes {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Botswana (N) [106]; Kenya (N) [106]; Mozambique (N) [106]; Namibia (N) [106]; Somalia (N) [106]; South Africa (N) [107]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [106]; Zambia (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (N) [106]
  Australasia
Papua New Guinea (I) [8, 261]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [33];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [33];
    Zambezian woodland [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transitional zone; wooded grassland [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 107, 146, 261] ; Illustration [146, 410]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [261] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [261], Tree [261] ; Lifespan: Perennial [261] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [106, 121]

  
NOTES:
  Native to Africa. [1915]
  Sometimes mistakenly called Cassia montana Heyne [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

106.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1967
    Caesalp.In:Flora Trop.East Africa. Milne-Redhead & Polhill

107.

  Ross, J.H., 1982
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa 16,pt.1.Ross.J.H.

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

146.

  Ross, J.H., 1980
    Fl.Pl.Africa 46:t.1819;Cassia abbreviata ssp.beareana

261.

  Verdcourt, B., 1979
    A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae,PNG

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a
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