Cassia abbreviata

Cassia abbreviata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Cassia
Species: C. abbreviata
Binomial name
Cassia abbreviata
Oliv. [1]
Subspecies

C. a. subsp. abbreviata
C. a. subsp. beareana

Cassia abbreviata is a mostly tropical tree species in the genus Cassia, which is indigenous to Africa.

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Native distribution

Cassia abbreviata is native to east, northeast, south, and west-central Africa; found in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa (in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga), Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[1]

Uses

Proguibourtinidins, a type of condensed tannins, can be found in C. abbreviata [2] and guibourtinidol, a flavan-3ol, can be found in its heartwood[3].

References

  1. ^ a b  Cassia abbreviata was originally described and published in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 271. 1871. GRIN (December 19, 2007). "Cassia abbreviata information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?300111. Retrieved December 6, 2011. 
  2. ^ The structure and synthesis of proguibourtinidins from Cassia abbreviata, Elfranco Malan, Ewald Swinny, Daneel Ferreira and Petrus Steynberg, 1996
  3. ^ The novel Flavan-3-ol, (2R,3S )-guibourtinidol and its diastereomers. Reinier J.J. Nel, Makhosazana Mthembu, Johan Coetzee, Hendrik van Rensburg, Elfranco Malan and Daneel Ferreira, Phytochemistry 52 (1999) 1153-1158

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