• Family : FABACEAE
  (PEA OR BEAN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Leguminosae
• Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
• Species : Cassia mimosoides
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene
• Common name : Feather-leaved Cassia, Mimosa-like Senna
• Vernacular name : Nelaponna (Tel.); Patwa-ghas (San.)
• Key identification features : A delicate herb with compound leaves. Leaflets are small in several pairs. Flower are up to 0.5-0.8 cm across and solitary in leaf axils. Fruit is a flat, many-seeded pod.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Native : Madagascar
• Comments : On hills up to 1600 m, on bare slopes, in pasturelands, etc. Also abundant in perennially moist places.
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Distribution Locality : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district) (Tamil Nadu State); Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Araku Valley (Visakhapatnam district), Malakondapenta R.F. (Prakasham district), Chittoor district (Andhra Pradesh State); Bolangir district, Ghandamardhan Hills (Bargarh district), Khurda district, Puri district, Ganjam district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : Old World tropics
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Cassia mimosoides. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.

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