Cash desks

Cash desks
	Tube cassia ( Cassia fistula )
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Fabales (Fabales)
Family :	Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily :	Carob family (Caesalpinioideae)
Genre :	Cash desks
Scientific name
	Cassia
	L.

The Kassien ( Cassia ) are a genus in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae within the family of legumes (Fabaceae).

description

Illustration of the tube cassia ( Cassia fistula )

Fruits of Cassia sieberiana

Vegetative characteristics

Cassia species grow as small, unreinforced trees or large shrubs . The above-ground parts of the plant are hairy or bare.

The alternate or spiraling, stalked leaves are glandless and pinnate in pairs with 3 to 25 pairs of leaflets . The entire-margined and short-stalked leaflets are ovate to obovate or elliptical and rounded to pointed and sometimes indented. The leaflets are pale green underneath. The sometimes bilobed stipules are pointed and deciduous.

Generative characteristics

The flowers stand together in terminal racemose inflorescences .

The five-fold flowers are slightly zygomorphic and petiolate. The five sepals are approximately the same, obovate and green to yellowish. The five petals are yellow or pink or rarely reddish, also white and mixed colors. They have a bract and bracte which usually fall off early.

There are ten free stamens or staminodes . The stamens are uneven and arranged in two circles. The three adaxial are much smaller and mostly sterile (staminodes), the four middle ones are longer and the three abaxial are very elongated, sigmoidal or S-shaped, with long anthers and the stamens are sometimes a little puffed up. The anthers are different, but never beaked. The stamens and staminodes open basal porizd and / or ventricid.

The above constant, stalked, elongated and unilocular ovary is hook-shaped curved and longer than the petals, it has many ovules and a barely distinctive, short pen capitate with a small scar .

The pendulous and short-stalked legumes are cylindrical or flattened and woody and rarely winged. They usually do not open up to maturity. Between the seeds there are more or less developed, transverse partitions (septa) that grow up in the endocarp . The very hard seeds are usually embedded in a soft pulp that tastes sweet to bitter and is more or less sticky. The funiculus of the seed, with which they are attached to the pericarp, is thread-shaped.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Cassia is pantropical .

The genus Cassia was established by Carl von Linné in 1753 . Synonyms for Cassia L. are: Bactyrilobium Willd. , Cathartocarpus pers.

The genus Cassia belongs to the subtribe Cassiinae in the tribe Cassieae in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae within the family of legumes (Fabaceae). Today the genus includes about 30 to over 70 species. In the past, the genus was much more species-rich, but a large part of the species was separated into the genera Senna Mill. And Chamaecrista Moench .

List of accepted cassia species:

Habit of Cassia abbreviata Cassia brewsteri Cassia grandis Cassia javanica Cassia leptophylla Cassia x nealiae Cassia nodosa Cassia roxburghii Cassia abbreviata olive. : It spreads from northeast to southern as well as west-central tropical Africa and in southern Africa. There are localities for Somalia , Kenya , Tanzania , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Mozambique , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Botswana , Namibia , Swaziland , Limpopo and Mpumalanga . Cassia aciphylla A. Gray Cassia afrofistula Brenan Cassia agnes (de Wit) Brenan Cassia aldabrensis Hemsl. Cassia angolensis here Cassia arereh Delile Cassia artemisioides DC. Cassia aubrevillei Pellegr. Cassia bakeriana Craib Cassia barclayana Sweet Cassia brewsteri (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. Cassia burttii Baker f. Cassia cardiosperma F. Muell. Cassia charlesiana Symon Cassia chatelainiana Gaudich. Cassia circinnata Benth. Cassia cladophylla W. Fitzg . Cassia concinna Benth. Cassia coronilloides Benth. Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & CTWhite Cassia cowanii H.S. Irwin & Barneby Cassia desolata F. Muell. Cassia eremophila bird Cassia fastuosa Willd. ex Benth. Cassia ferraria Symon Cassia ferruginea (Schrad.) Schrad. ex DC. Tube cassia ( Cassia fistula L. ) Cassia goniodes Benth . Cassia grandis L. f. : It is distributed from southern Mexico to southwestern Brazil and the Caribbean islands. Cassia hammersleyensis Symon Cassia harneyi woodpecker Cassia helmsii symon Cassia hintonii Sandwith Cassia hippophallus Capuron : It occurs in Madagascar only in the provinces of Antsiranana and Mahajanga . Cassia javanica L. Cassia Johannae Vatke Cassia Leiandra Benth. Cassia leptoclada Benth. Cassia leptophylla bird Cassia lineata (Sw.) Greene Cassia luerssenii Domin Cassia madagascariensis Bojer Cassia magnifolia F. Muell. Cassia manicula symon Cassia mannii olive. Cassia marksiana (Bailey) Domin Cassia midas H.S. Irwin & Barneby Cassia moschata Kunth : It is distributed from southeastern Mexico to Brazil. Cassia × nealiae H.S. Irwin & Barneby (= Cassia javanica × Cassia fistula ) Cassia nemophila bird Cassia neurophylla W. Fitzg. Cassia notabilis F. Muell. Cassia oligoclada F. Muell. Cassia oligophylla F. Muell. Cassia phyllodinea R.Br. Cassia pilocarina Symon Cassia pleurocarpa F. Muell. Cassia pruinosa F. Muell. Cassia queenslandica C.T. White Cassia regia Standl. Cassia renigera Benth. Cassia retusa bird Cassia roxburghii DC. Cassia rubriflora Ducke Cassia sieberiana DC. Cassia spruceana Benth. Cassia stowardii S.Moore Cassia sturtii R.Br. Cassia thyrsoidea Brenan Cassia tomentella (Benth.) Domin Cassia venusta F. Muell.