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Cassia agnes (de Wit)Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Cassia L.

Cassia agnes (de Wit)Brenan [Preferred name]
    Cassia javanica var. agnes de Wit {Synonym}
    Cassia javanica var. indo-chinensis Gagnep. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Pink Shower [261]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ghana (I) [8]; Kenya (I) [8]; Nigeria (I) [8]; Tanzania (I) [8]; Uganda (I) [8]; Zaire (I) [8]
  Asia
Borneo (N) [2002]; Burma (U) [3011]; Cambodia (N) [106, 1935]; China (N) [3011, 3407]; Guangxi [3407]; Yunnan [3407]; India (N) [2002, 3366, 3911]; Arunachal Pradesh [3366]; Assam [3366]; Manipur [3366]; Mizoram [3366]; Nagaland [3366]; Tripura [3366]; Indonesia (I) [3911]; Jawa (N) [3911]; Kalimantan (N) [3911]; Laos (N) [2002]; Malaysia (N) [2002, 3911]; Myanmar (N) [1914, 3366]; Peninsular Malaysia (N) [3911]; Sabah (N) [3911]; Sarawak (N) [3911]; Singapore (I) [3938]; Sumatera (N) [3911]; Thailand (N) [106, 2002]; Vietnam (N) [2002]
  Australasia
Papua New Guinea (I) [261]
  Indian Ocean

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [261, 1935, 2002, 2111, 2999, 3001, 3407, 3898, 3911] ; Illustration [1935, 2002, 2999, 3911]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [261] ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Tree [261] ; Lifespan: Perennial [261] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [106, 2002, 3011]; Food and Drink [1935]; Medicine [2002]; Toxins [1935]; Wood [1935]

  
NOTES:
  Native of Indochina; widely cultivated in India & Africa. [261]
  Only known cultivated in Malaysia. [3911]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

106.

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

261.

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

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1915.

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

1935.

  Larsen, K. et al, 1980
    In: Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam, Vol 18.A.

2002.

  Larsen, K. et al., 1984
    Flora of Thailand, Vol 4 Part 1.In: T.Smithinand & K.Larsen

2111.

  Ridley, H.N., 1922
    Flora of the Malay Peninsula Vol I

2999.

  Cockburn, P.F., 1976
    Trees of Sabah 1:Sabah Forest Record No.10,Forest Dept.Sabah

3001.

  Ding Hou, Larsen, S & Larsen, K, 1996
    Flora Malesiana I, 12,2:409-784.Caesalpiniaceae.

3011.

  Corner, E.J.H, 1952
    Wayside trees of Malaya (2nd ed.) Singapore.

3366.

  Sanjappa, M., 2000
    Checklist of the Leguminosae in South Asia. Typescript

3407.

  Chen, P.Y., 1988
    Erythrophloeum &... In: Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 39 (Legum. 1)

3890.

  Lock, J.M. & Ford, 2004
    Legumes of Malesia: A check-list. RBG Kew.

3898.

  Backer, C.A., 1963
    Flora of Java. Groningen, The Netherlands

3911.

  DeWit, H.C.D., 1955
    Webbia 11:197-292.Revision of Gen. Cassia as occ.in Malaysia

3938.

  Keng, H., 1990
    Concise Flora of Singapore. Singapore
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