Taxon: Cassia fistula L.
Genus: Cassia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Caesalpinioideae tribe: Cassieae subtribe: Cassiinae. Also placed in:
Caesalpiniaceae
Nomen number: 9334
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:377. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: review history
of nomenclature proposal
concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database
Name verified on: 14-Mar-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- golden shower (Source: Baileya
23:204. 1996) – English
- Indian-laburnum (Source: Baileya
23:204. 1996) – English
- purging cassia (Source: Baileya
23:204. 1996) – English
- bâton casse (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- canéficer (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- casse fistuleuse (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Röhrenkassie (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- cássia-fístula (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cássia-imperial (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cana-fístula (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- chuva-de-ouro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cañafístula (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in tropics
Cultivated: - widely cultivated in tropics
Other: - possible origin tropical Asia
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
- Brummitt, R. K.
1994. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 41.
Taxon
43:273. [conservation proposal not recommended].
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- George, A. S., ed.
1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Irwin, H. S. & R. C. Barneby.
1982. The American Cassiinae: a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World.
Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
35:14.
- Luckow, M.
1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae).
Baileya
23:204.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- National Academy of Sciences.
1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
- Padua, L. S. de et al., eds.
1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
12(1):183.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Reveal, J. L.
1992. (1042) Proposal to conserve the name and type of Cassia fistula Linnaeus.
Taxon
41:136.
- Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds.
1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
- More:
Check other databases for Cassia fistula L.:
- ABIF: Australian Biodiversity
Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
- ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Cassia fistula cultivars
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images or 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.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?9334 (09 February 2010)
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