Cassia abbreviata

Cassia abbreviata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Genus:	Cassia
Species:	C. abbreviata
Binomial name
	Cassia abbreviata; Oliv.
Subspecies
	See text

Cassia abbreviata, commonly known as the sjambok pod or long-tail cassia, is a mostly tropical tree species in the genus Cassia, which is native to Africa.

Native distribution

Cassia abbreviata is native to east, northeast, south, and west-central Africa; found in Botswana, the DRC, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa (in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga), Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.^[1]

Uses

Proguibourtinidins, a type of condensed tannins, can be found in C. abbreviata^[2] and guibourtinidol, a flavan-3ol, can be found in its heartwood.^[3]

Subspecies

Three subspecies are distinguished on the basis of petal size, pubescence and geographical distribution:^[4]

Cassia abbreviata subsp. abbreviata
Cassia abbreviata subsp. beareana (Holmes) Brenan
Cassia abbreviata subsp. kassneri (Baker f.) Brenan

Dehisced seed pod
Foliage

References

^ ^a ^b Cassia abbreviata was originally described and published in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 271. 1871. "Cassia abbreviata". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
^ Malan, Elfranco; Swinny, Ewald; Ferreira, Daneel; Steynberg, Petrus (1996-03-01). "The structure and synthesis of proguibourtinidins from Cassia abbreviata". Phytochemistry. 41 (4): 1209–1213. Bibcode:1996PChem..41.1209M. doi:10.1016/0031-9422(95)00656-7.
^ The novel Flavan-3-ol, (2R,3S )-guibourtinidol and its diastereomers. Reinier J.J. Nel, Makhosazana Mthembu, Johan Coetzee, Hendrik van Rensburg, Elfranco Malan and Daneel Ferreira, Phytochemistry 52 (1999) 1153-1158
^ Orwa, C.; Mutua, A.; Kindt, R.; Jamnadass, R.; Anthony, S. "Cassia abbreviata" (PDF). worldagroforestry.org. Agroforestree Database: a tree reference and selection guide version 4.0. Retrieved 16 May 2016.

External links

Cassia abbreviata on www.ildis.org
Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Cassia abbreviata". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.

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[grin-1] Cassia abbreviata was originally described and published in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 271. 1871. "Cassia abbreviata". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved December 6, 2011.

[2] Malan, Elfranco; Swinny, Ewald; Ferreira, Daneel; Steynberg, Petrus (1996-03-01). "The structure and synthesis of proguibourtinidins from Cassia abbreviata". Phytochemistry. 41 (4): 1209–1213. Bibcode:1996PChem..41.1209M. doi:10.1016/0031-9422(95)00656-7.

[3] The novel Flavan-3-ol, (2R,3S )-guibourtinidol and its diastereomers. Reinier J.J. Nel, Makhosazana Mthembu, Johan Coetzee, Hendrik van Rensburg, Elfranco Malan and Daneel Ferreira, Phytochemistry 52 (1999) 1153-1158

[agro-4] Orwa, C.; Mutua, A.; Kindt, R.; Jamnadass, R.; Anthony, S. "Cassia abbreviata" (PDF). worldagroforestry.org. Agroforestree Database: a tree reference and selection guide version 4.0. Retrieved 16 May 2016.

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