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Cassia roxburghii
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Caesalpinioideae)
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Citation: Cassia roxburghii DC., Prodr. 2: 489. 1825; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 20. 1992; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 47. 2001; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 262. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 331. 2009.
Cassia marginata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 338. 1832, non Willd.; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 262. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 401(284). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kadakonna
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Red Cassia
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark brown; branchlets velvety pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules ovate, lateral, muriculate, cauducous; rachis 14-25 cm long, slender, pulvinate, pubescent; leaflets 16-30, subopposite, estipellate; petiolule to 2 mm, puberulent; lamina 1.5-4.5 x 1-2 cm, elliptic-oblong or ovate, base oblique or subacute, apex obtuse, retuse or mucronate, margin entire, glabrous above, puberulent beneath, coriaceous, lateral nerves10-16 pairs, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, flame coloured, 2.5 cm across, in axillary corymbose racemes to 8 cm; pedicels to 1 cm; calyx lobes 5, 4-7 mm, ovate, obtuse; petals 5, 1.5-2 cm, pink to rose, turning yellow or orange, ovate- oblong, concave, pubescent without, clawed; stamens 10, the lower 3 filaments 2.5-3 cm long, curved; others shorter; upper 3 short with reduced filaments and anthers; 4-medium with erect filaments; ovary half inferior, stipitate, 2 cm, pubescent, ovules many; style to 6 mm. Fruit a pod, 20-30 x 2 cm long, oblong, terete, torulose, black, indehiscent; seeds many, transverse, imbedded in dry pith.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-May
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental tree
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Distribution:
Native of Sri Lanka, common in Peninsular India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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