Cassia ligustrina L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Caesalpiniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial, shrubby, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, branched, 5-20 dm. high, the branches nearly terete. Stipules linear, fugacious or wanting; leaves petioled, 1-2.5 dm. long, bearing a linear-oblong gland on the petiole; leaflets 5-8 pairs, short-petioluled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, 2.5-6 cm. long; racemes few-severalflowered, peduncled, axillary and forming a terminal corymb; pedicels slender; calyx about 8 mm. long; petals yellow, fading whitish, twice as long as the sepals; perfect stamens 10; pod linear, flat, glabrous, curved, 7-15 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide; seeds compressed, parallel with the valves.
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Distribution
Waste grounds, pine and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros and New Providence :- Bermuda ; Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Guiana. Privet Senna.
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