Cassia aldabrensis

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Cassia aldabrensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Cassia
Species:
C. aldabrensis
Binomial name
Cassia aldabrensis
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Synonyms

Cassia mimosoidessensu Baker
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Cassia aldabrensis is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae endemic to Assumption and Aldabra near the Seychelles. It is threatened by habitat destruction. [2]

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Taxonomy

Cassia mimosoides was established by Linné for a Cassieae taxon nowadays called Chamaecrista mimosoides . The taxon applied by many subsequent authors to related plants, either as a formally described junior synonym or as an informal error. John Gilbert Baker erroneously thought Linné's taxon applied to the present species, and sources that refer back to Baker can be expected to do likewise. Other "Cassia mimosoides" are: [3]

Footnotes

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Cassia aldabrensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998: e.T37573A10064644. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T37573A10064644.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. WCMC (1998)
  3. ILDIS (2005)

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