Cassia tomentosa L. f. GRIN-Global

Taxon: Cassia tomentosa L. f.

Synonym of Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Summary

Genus:

Cassia

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Caesalpinioideae

Tribe:

Cassieae

Subtribe:

Cassiinae

Nomen number:

9396

Place of publication:

Suppl. pl. 231. 1782 ("1781")

Comment:

non Senna tomentosa Batka (1854), which blocks transfer of the specific epithet (Melbourne ICN Art. 11.4c)

Verified:

10/17/1989 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

1 (1 active, 0 available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

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Reference(s)

Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
Irwin, H. S. & R. C. Barneby. 1982. The American Cassiinae: a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35:357.
Leonard, L. T. 1925. Lack of nodule formation in a subfamily of the Leguminosae. Soil Sci. 20:165-167.
Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:225.
Sanjappa, M. Legumes of India. 1992

Common names

Distribution

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=9396. Accessed 19 July 2025.