Taxon: Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene

Common names:

• Japanese-tea   (Source: F Viti )
  
• patwa-ghas   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia mimosoides) [India]
  
• nemucha   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia mimosoides) [Transcribed Japanese]
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Baileya 23:209. 1996; F Viti)
  

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n. & e.], Western Australia [n.e.]

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• 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. 35:843.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. (Leg Indochina)
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:337.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
• Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:209.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Chamaecrista mimosoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Chamaecrista mimosoides. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cassia mimosoides L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other databases for Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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