Chamaecrista pumila (Lam.) K. Larsen (= Cassia pumila Lam.)

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 81

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Chamaecrista pumila (Lam.) K. Larsen (= Cassia pumila Lam.)
status

 

Chamaecrista pumila (Lam.) K. Larsen (= Cassia pumila Lam.)

Names.

Hawaiian: chota aura

Range.

Tropical Asia, tropical Africa and Australia. In Myanmar found in Yangon.

Use.

Seed: A laxative.

Note.

The medicinal use of this species, as well as those of several other members of the genus, is noted in Perry (1980).

Reference.

Perry (1980).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Chamaecrista