- Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
- Synonym(s) : Cassia marginata Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cassia roxburghii DC.
- Common name : Red Cassia, Red Indian Laburnum
- Vernacular name : Kakke (Kannada); Sengondrai, Vakai (Tamil); Kadakonna (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Grown as ornamental tree
- Comments / notes : In plains. Often Planted
- Flower, Fruit : February-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Chittoor district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Gajapati district
- Tamil Nadu : Villipuram district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Pudukkottai district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Native : Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cassia roxburghii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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