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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Chamaecrista, Japanese Tea, Japanese-Tea, Mateloi, Mateloi Lalahi
Common Names in India:
Patwa-Ghas
Common Names in Informal Latinized N:
Chamaecrista
Common Names in Japanese:
Kawara-Ketumei, Nemucha
Common Names in Portuguese:
Cássia De Empingem
Description
Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, rarely apparently simple . Corolla usually showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal innermost in bud. Stamens 10 or fewer, distinct , usually not showy, some commonly reduced to staminodes. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) usually lacking. [Carr]
Physical Description
Habit: Herb, Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June, July, August. • Flower Color: gold, yellow-orange, yellow
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,749 meters (0 to 9,019 feet).[1]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Annual
Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
()
- Tribe:
Cassieae
()
- Genus:
Chamaecrista
()
- Moench, 1794
- Specific epithet:
mimosoides
- (L.)Greene
- Botanical name: - Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.)Greene
- Specific epithet:
mimosoides
- (L.)Greene
- Genus:
Chamaecrista
(
- Tribe:
Cassieae
(
- Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Cassia angustissima Lam. • Cassia mimosoides L. • Cassia procumbens sensu Stickman • Cassia sensitiva Roxb.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Conservation
Status: Not Threatened,
Habit: Herb, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan: Perennial
, Lifespan: Annual
Similar Species
Members of the genus Chamaecrista
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. absus (Tropical Sensitive Pea) · C. absus var. absus (Tropical Sensitive-Pea) · C. absus var. meonandra (Tropical Sensitive Pea) · C. brevifolia (Mandri-Arivou) · C. calycioides (Woodland Sensitive Pea) · C. chamaecristoides (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. chamaecristoides var. cruziana (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. deeringiana (Florida Keys Sensitive Pea) · C. diphylla (Twoleaf Sensitive Pea) · C. fasciculata (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. fasciculata var. macrosperma (Sleepingplant) · C. flexuosa (Texas Sensitive Pea) · C. flexuosa var. texana (Texas Sensitive Pea) · C. glandulosa (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa mirabilis var. mirabilis (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa var. glandulosa (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa var. swartzii (Swartz's Jamaican Broom) · C. greggii (Gregg's Sensitive Pea) · C. leschenaultiana (Cassia) · C. lineata (Narrowpod Sensitive Pea) · C. lineata var. brachyloba (Narrowpod Sensitive Pea) · C. lineata var. keyensis (Big Pine Partridge Pea) · C. lomatopoda (Chamaecrista) · C. mimosoides (Chamaecrista) · C. nictitans (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans nictitans var. nictitans (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans patellaria var. Patellaria (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. aspera (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. diffusa (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. glabrata (Partidge Pea) · C. nictitans var. leptadenia (Partridge Pea) · C. pilosa (Hairy Sensitive Pea) · C. portoricensis (Puerto Rico Sensitive Pea) · C. potentilla (Cinquefoil) · C. ramosa (Savannah Sensitive Pea) · C. rotundifolia (Roundleaf Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens (Slender Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens var. serpens (Slender Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens var. wrightii (Shrubby Senna)
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Further Reading
- Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 565, p. 567, p. 568, p. 570.
- Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 118.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1943 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1943] url p. 178.
- The Philippine journal of science. 5 1910 Manila. url p. 47.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
- Hughes CE, 1999-09 (from ILDIS).
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
- ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- Bioversity International: The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER)
- GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
- Harvard University Herbaria
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
- Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility: Magnoliophyta
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2670329
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-660
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13816176
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:167830-3
- GRIN Nomen Number: 100085
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506342
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 54606-2
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CHMI6
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 28577
Footnotes
- Mean = 625.710 meters (2,052.854 feet), Standard Deviation = 735.580 based on 183 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
