Taxon: Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston

Common names:

• Mauritius-thorn   (Source: Weeds SAfr ) – English
  
• Mysorethorn   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• thorny poinciana   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wait-a-while   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• woody wait-a-while   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• kraaldoring   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• Mauritius-dorn   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• jaketsu-ibara   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (fide Pl Book; F LAnt; Hortus 3; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ohashi, pers. comm.)
  
• Weed   (fide Henderson et al. 1987; Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [except w. & n.e.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Liberia; Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
  New Zealand: New Zealand - Kermadec Islands
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Western South America: Peru

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hattink, T. A. 1974. A revision of Malesian Caesalpinia, including Mezoneuron (Leguminosae-Caesalpiniaceae). Reinwardtia 9:24.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [cult.].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(2):37.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lewis, G. P. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Caesalpinoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 17 Jan. ["of unclear generic placement"].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Ohashi, H. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Japan, Taiwan data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Troupin, G. 1978–. Flore du Rwanda.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ulibarri, E. A. 1996. Sinopsis de Caesalpinia y Hoffmannseggia (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) de sudamérica. Darwiniana 34:314.
• Vidal, J. E. & S. Hul Thol. 1976. Révision des Caesalpinia asiatiques. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (or, Sér. 3, Bot.) 27:81.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Caesalpinia decapetala.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Caesalpinia decapetala.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Caesalpinia decapetala.

Synonyms:

• (=) Caesalpinia japonica Siebold & Zucc.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Caesalpinia sepiaria Roxb.
  (previously associated with 14 accessions)
• (≡) Reichardia decapetala Roth (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

Ctrl P to print