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Cassia afrofistula Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Cassia L.

Cassia afrofistula Brenan [Preferred name]
    Cassia beareana sensu R.O.Williams {Misapplied}
    Cassia fistula sensu Brenan {Misapplied}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Tsiambaravatsy [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (N) [106]; Mozambique (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (I) [8]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [148, 3402]
  North America
United States (I) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 148, 3402] ; Illustration [106, 148]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3402], Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract [3402], 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [148]

  
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

148.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1969
    Hookers Ic.Pl.ser.5,7:tt.3658-60. Cassia bur.,thyr.,afrofis.

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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