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Published In: Flora 22(1): 53. 1839. (Flora) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: Cold season.
Distribution: Distribution: Native of Tropical Africa, introduced in gardens in Punjab.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Cultivated as an ornamental and fodder plant.
Photo: Cassia didymobotrya Fresen. (Photo)

 

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Large shrub or small tree, 1.5-3.5 m tall, branches hairy. Stipules 10-25 mm long, broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate. Leaves 13-30 cm long, rachis produced into a short spur, glands absent or obscure. Leaflets 8-16 pairs, 2-6 cm long, 0.7-2 cm wide, oblong, mucronate, hairy on both the surfaces. Raceme axillary, pedunculate, 12-50 cm long. Bracts 12-15 mm long. Sepals c. 12 mm long, narrowly obovate. Petals 1.5-2.5 cm long, claw 1 mm long. Stamens 10, 2 lower large, fertile, 3 upper staminodial, short and sterile and 5 medium fertile. Fruit stipitate, flat, 7.5-10 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, 9-16 seeded, glabrescent.
 
 
 
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