Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Cassia surattensis Burm.f.
Habit:
Shrubs
Habitat:
Cultivation to roadsides, pastures, and waste places at lower altitudes
Distribution:
Native of South East Asia
Flowering and Fruiting: Throughout the
year
Key identification features:
Shrubs; branchlets ribbed, thinly pubescent. Leaves alternate elliptic or
oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse at apex, oblique at base, discolourous,
glabrous or pubescent beneath, Racemes 5 to 20-flowered, in the axils of upper
leaves, corymbose; Petals about as wide, yellow. Pods strap-shaped, flat,
thin-valved, sepatate, dark brown; seeds 10-13, brown,
Uses:
Leaves
used as laxative to treat constipation
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