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Cassia javanica ssp. nodosa (Roxb.)K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Cassia L.

Cassia javanica ssp. nodosa (Roxb.)K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen [Preferred name]
    Cassia javanica var. indochinensis Gagnep. {Synonym}
    Cassia nodosa Roxb. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Cassie Rose [1941]; Pink Cassia [2, 2023]; Pink Mohur [3618]; Pink Shower [2264, 3391]; White Shower [3391]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Uganda (I) [2]; Zaire (I) [8]
  Asia
Bangladesh (N) [1914, 3383]; Bhutan (I) [1914, 1947]; Cambodia (U) [1935]; China (I) [3407]; Guangdong [3407]; India (N) [1914, 2002, 3028, 3032, 3040, 3092, 3372, 3377, 3387, 3391, 3587, 3618]; Andhra Pradesh [3391]; Arunachal Pradesh [3040]; Assam [1914]; Bihar [3587]; Delhi [3372]; Gujarat [1914]; Madhaya Pradesh [3391]; Maharashtra [3391]; Manipur [1914]; Meghalaya [3391]; Mizoram [3391]; Nagaland [3391]; Punjab [3377]; Rajasthan [3028]; Tamil Nadu [3032]; Tripura [3092]; Uttar Pradesh [3387]; West Bengal [3618]; Indonesia (N) [1936, 2002, 3001]; Jawa (N) [3001]; Laos (I) [1935]; Lesser Sunda Is (N) [3001]; Malaysia (N) [1936, 2002, 3001]; Myanmar (N) [1914, 2002]; Pakistan (I) [2021]; Peninsular Malaysia (N) [3001]; Singapore (I) [3001]; Sri Lanka (I) [2023]; Thailand (N) [1935, 2002, 3001]; Vietnam (U) [1935]
  Australasia
Papua New Guinea (I) [261, 3001]
  Indian Ocean
Andaman Is (N) [1914, 3389]; Seychelles (I) [1941]
  Pacific Ocean
Fiji (I) [2264]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [2];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1935, 1941, 1947, 2002, 2021, 2023, 3001, 3372, 3407, 3618] ; Illustration [2002, 3391, 3407, 3618]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [1941] [3001] ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Tree [1941] [3001] ; Lifespan: Perennial [1941] [3001] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova M

  
USES:
  Environmental [2, 2002, 2264, 3001, 3391]; Medicine [1935, 2002, 3391]; Miscellaneous [2023, 3372, 3391, 3618]

  
NOTES:
  Frequently cultivated. [2002]
  Perhaps native in Cambodia and Vietnam. [1935]
  Has been cited from the Mascarenes, but probably C. agnes misidentified. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2.

  Dale, I.R., 1953
    A descriptive list of the introduced trees of Uganda

8.

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

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  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.

1936.

  De Wit, H., 1955
    Webbia 11: 197-292. A revision of the genus Cassia...

1941.

  Robertson, S.A., 1989
    Flowering Plants of Seychelles. Kew

1947.

  Grierson, A.J.C. & Long, D.G., 1987
    Flora of Bhutan,Vol.1.(Part 3). Edinburgh: RBG

2002.

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

2021.

  Ali, S.I., 1973
    Flora of Pakistan, No.54 Caesalpiniaceae. Karachi:Univ Karac

2023.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae

2264.

  Parham, J.W., 1972
    Plants of the Fiji Islands

3001.

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

3028.

  Shetty, B.V. & Singh, V., 1987
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  Parkinson, C.E., 1923
    A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands

3391.

  Singh, V., 2001
    Monograph on Indian Subtribe Cassiinae (Caesalpiniaceae)

3407.

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

3587.

  Haines, H.H., 1922
    The Botany of Bihar & Orissa, Part 3. London.

3618.

  Benthall, A.P., 1946
    The trees of Calcutta. Calcutta.
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