Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Cassia retusa Vogel.

Cassia retusa Vogel

HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Cassia L.

Cassia retusa Vogel [Preferred name]
Cassia horsfieldii Miq. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Ivory Coast (I) [8]
Asia: East Timor (N) [3911]; Indonesia (N) [3911]; Jawa (N) [3911]; Lesser Sunda Is (N) [3911]; Moluccas (N) [3911]
Australasia: Australia (N) [3911]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [8];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3911]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing [3911] ; Habit: Shrub [3911], Tree [3911] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3911] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

3911.		DeWit, H.C.D., 1955
		Webbia 11:197-292.Revision of Gen. Cassia as occ.in Malaysia