Cassia fistula
Nombres vernáculos
(en territorios con usos significativos TRAMIL)
Santa Lucía:
- golden shower
- kas
Martinica:
- kas
Distribución geográfica
Nativa de Asia tropical, ampliamente cultivada en todas las regiones tropicales.
Descripción botánica
Árbol de hasta 20 m de altura, corteza lisa grisácea. Hojas compuestas glabras, de más de 35 cm; folíolos 4 a 8 pares, oblongos, obovados o redondeados de 7 a 20 cm, glabros, con el haz verde brillante y lustroso, pálidos en el envés, cartáceos. Flores amarillas agrupadas en vistosos racimos colgantes, axilares; sépalos redondeados; pétalos amarillos de 1.5 cm, con venas oscuras prominentes. Fruto, vaina subcilíndrica, leñosa, café ocre, de 8 a 15 cm. Semillas cafés, aplanadas, recubiertas de una pulpa pegajosa.
Voucher(s)
Longuefosse,38,HAVPM
Veloz,3011,JBSD
Ocampo,7544,JVR
Farmacopea
Ed.3References
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