USDA ARS United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
  GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Jump to common names  Jump to economic impacts  Jump to distribution  Jump to references  Jump to synonyms  Jump to links to other online resources  Jump to images

***Please tell us why you value GRIN Taxonomy***

Taxon: Cassia grandis L. f.

Genus: Cassia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Caesalpinioideae tribe: Cassieae subtribe: Cassiinae. Also placed in: Caesalpiniaceae
Nomen number: 9340
Place of publication: Suppl. pl. 230. 1782 ("1781")
Name verified on: 14-Mar-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Oct-2001
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • appleblossom cassia   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • coral shower   (Source: Baileya 23:205. 1996) – English
  • horse cassia   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • pink shower   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • bâton casse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • casse du Brésil   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • großfrüchtige Kassie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • cássia-grande   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • canafístula   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • geneúna   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • árbol de fuego   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • sándalo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • rosenkassia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Baileya 23:205. 1996)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):184. 1999)
More:

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Mexico [s.]
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Caribbean: Cuba [e.]; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Montserrat; Puerto Rico [s.w.]
    Mesoamerica: Central America
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil [Para, Amazonas, Mato Grosso]
    Western South America: Colombia; Peru - Loreto [questionably native]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
  • 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. 35:30.
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:204–205.
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
  • McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
  • Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):184.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
  • Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
More:

Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Cassia grandis L. f.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • 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
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Cassia grandis 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.

Images or nodulation data:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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
| USDA | ARS | GRIN | NPGS | New Search |
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?9340 (21 May 2013)

Please send us your comments

Close Window

Ctrl P to print