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Common name

English: Siamese Cassia

Mandarin: 铁刀木 (tie dao mu)

Portuguese: Acácia de Sian

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fabales (244)

        Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)

          Genus: Senna (7)

            Epithet: siamea (Lam.) Irwin & Barneby (1)

Synonyms: Cassia arborea Macfad., Cassia florida Vahl, Cassia gigantea Bertero, Cassia siamea Lam., Cassia sumatrana DC., Chamaefistula gigantea (Bertero ex DC.) G.Don, Sciacassia siamea (Lam.) Britton & Rose, Senna sumatrana (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Roxb.

arborea => like a tree

florida => flowering richly

gigantea => gigantic, unusually higher than the type

siamea => from Siam (old name for Thailand)

sumatrana => from Sumatra, Indonesia

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: yellow

External links

Check for Senna siamea at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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