Leguminosae-caes Cassia javanica L.

| |	© W.D. Hawthorne

Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Flower
• Vegetative
• Inflorescence
• Flower & fruit
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Grenada - GRENADA

Species information

Description
1Flowers pink; pods large black2 2Leaflets 12-20 pairs, onblong ; shoots with brown wooly hairs; shoots in long spikes (C.grandis) 2Leaflets 5-12 pairs, elliptic 3 3Trunk spiny; stipules large. C.javanica 3. Trunk not spiny; stipules tiny. C. nodosa 1 Flowers yellow; pod small flat 4Leaflets 2 pairs; C. splendida 4Leafelts 3-10 pairs or pod cylindric 5 5pod cylindic; leaflets many6 6 infls hanging frombranches. C. fistula 6. Infls terminal (lflets 6-15 pairs) C.spectabilis 5 Pod flat or short 7 7 3-6 pairs C. surattensis 7. 6-12 pairs C. siamea 4 leaflets 10-26 pairs; pod flat or winged lfelts > 2inches; orange spikes C.alata lfelts <2 icnhes long C.multijuga

Interest
Can probably hybridise with C. javanica (Corner, 1988). From Java to Philippines.

Specimen information

Collector
Hawthorne, W.D.

Specimen Number
s.n.