Cassia abbreviata

Species of legume

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.[1]

Subspecies

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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

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Drinking monepenepe in Botswana.

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

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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

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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

## See also

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* List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes

## References

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1. ^ 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.
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
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.

## External links

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

Data related to Cassia abbreviata at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers

Cassia abbreviata|

* Wikidata: Q145495
* Wikispecies: Cassia abbreviata
* APDB: 177159
* CoL: RL6J
* EoL: 703799
* GBIF: 5357073
* GRIN: 300111
* iNaturalist: 147000
* IPNI: 484036-1
* IRMNG: 10177765
* ITIS: 819972
* IUCN: 158023
* NCBI: 992663
* Open Tree of Life: 499473
* Plant List: ild-972
* PLANTS: CAAB13
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:484036-1
* Tropicos: 13027825
* WFO: wfo-0000214576

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