Common name
English: Siamese Cassia
Mandarin: 铁刀木 (tie dao mu)
Portuguese: Acácia de Sian
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)
Order: Fabales (241)
Family: Fabaceae (241)(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- [360] Senna siamea - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
- [413] International Legume Database & Information Service
- [1235] Senna - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
- [1520] Senna siamea - Flora of China @ efloras.org