Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.)Greene
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Cassia angustissima Lam. |
synonym | Cassia mimosoides L. |
synonym | Cassia nictitans Sensu Stickman, non L. |
synonym | Cassia procumbens Sensu Stickman, non L. |
synonym | Cassia sensitiva Roxb. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
This is a legume which is erect to prostrate usually annual, growing upto 1.5 m in height. Stems tend to be woody sometimes, usually covered with short curved hairs, sometimes more or less with longer hairs. Leaves are compound, linear-oblong to linear, parallel-sidded, 0.4 to 1.5 cm in width and 0.6 x 10 cm in length, 16-76 pairs of leaflets. Leaf has a fish-bone like appearence. Inflorescence with one to three flowers. Flowers are with five petals and have a typical cassia like resemblance and yellow in color. Petals are obovate 4 to 13mm in length and 2 to 9mm in width. Pods are linear-oblong to linear, 3.5 to 8 cm in length (rarely 1.5 cm in length) and 3.5mm in width.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Keerthi Krutha for the Assam Biodiversity Portal Project.
Shrubs or herbs, young stem, rachis often appressed hairy. Leaves spirally arranged or distichous, paripinnate, 4-8 cm long; leaflets opposite 24-50 pairs, 3-6 x 1-2 mm, linear-oblong, oblique at base, margins ciliate; rachis with a sessile gland near the base; stipules linear 5-8 mm long. Flowers solitary or many-flowered, racemes, axillary or supra axillary; peduncle 1-2 cm long; bracts ovate, 3-6 mm long; bracteoles scarious; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 4-5 mm long. Petals 5, yellow, 5-8 mm long, obovate. Stamens 10, alternate short and long. Ovary linear, densely silky hairy, stigma truncate. Pods 3-6 x 0.4-0.5 cm. plano-compressed, thickened along sutures, elastically dehiscent; seeds c. 20, ellipsoid.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
Type Information
Habitat in Zeylona.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Keerthi Krutha for the Assam Biodiversity Portal Project.
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📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry and moist deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Paleotropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Wayanad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List - Least Concern
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Keerthi Krutha for the Assam Biodiversity Portal Project.
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Cassia mimosoides L., Sp. Pl. 379. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 266. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 403(285). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 95. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 162. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 144. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 92. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 165. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 144. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 220. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 181. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 17. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 165. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 116. 1995; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 163. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 107. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 234. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 122. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 112. 1999; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 231. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 198. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 255. 2009.
- Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4:27.1899; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 67. 2001; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 107. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 323. 2009.
- Flowers of India. Retrieved April 28, 2018, from http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Feather-leaved%20Cassia.html
- The International Plant Names Index (2012). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org [accessed 29 April 2018]
- Roskov Y., Zarucchi J., Novoselova M. & Bisby F.(†) (eds) (2018). ILDIS World Database of Legumes (version 12, May 2014). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 28th March 2018. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Information Listing > References
- Cassia mimosoides L., Sp. Pl. 379. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 266. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 403(285). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 95. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 162. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 144. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 92. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 165. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 144. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 220. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 181. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 17. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 165. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 116. 1995; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 163. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 107. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 234. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 122. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 112. 1999; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 231. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 198. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 255. 2009.
- Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4:27.1899; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 67. 2001; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 107. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 323. 2009.
- Flowers of India. Retrieved April 28, 2018, from http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Feather-leaved%20Cassia.html
- The International Plant Names Index (2012). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org [accessed 29 April 2018]
- Roskov Y., Zarucchi J., Novoselova M. & Bisby F.(†) (eds) (2018). ILDIS World Database of Legumes (version 12, May 2014). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 28th March 2018. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Chamaecrista |
Species | Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene |
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