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The genus Cassia is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cassia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cassia abbreviata Oliv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia aciphylla A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia afrofistula Brenan	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia agnes (de Wit) Brenan	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia aldabrensis Hemsl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia angolensis Hiern	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia arereh Delile	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia artemisioides DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia aubrevillei Pellegr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia bakeriana Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia barbinervis (Pittier) Pittier	Accepted		TRO
Cassia barclayana Sweet	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia brewsteri F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia burttii Baker f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia cardiosperma F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia charlesiana Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia chatelainiana Gaudich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia circinnata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia cladophylla W.Fitzg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia concinna Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia conspicua (G. Don) Vogel	Accepted		TRO
Cassia coronilloides Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia cowanii H.S.Irwin & Barneby	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia curvistyla J.M.Black	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia cuthbertsonii F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia desolata F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia eremophila Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia fastuosa Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia ferraria Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia ferruginea (Schrad.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia fistula L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia goniodes Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia grandis L.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia hamersleyensis Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia harneyi Specht	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia helmsii Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia hintonii Sandwith	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia hippophallus Capuron	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia italica (Mill.) Lam. ex F.W. Andrews	Accepted		TRO
Cassia javanica L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia johannae Vatke	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia lancangensis Y.Y. Qian	Accepted		TRO
Cassia leiandra Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia leptoclada Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia leptophylla Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia leucocephala Sensu Bailey	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia luerssenii Domin	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia madagascariensis Bojer	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia magnifolia F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia manicula Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia mannii Oliv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia marksiana (Bailey) Domin	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia midas H.S.Irwin & Barneby	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia minutiflora León	Accepted		TRO
Cassia monserratensis Lundell	Accepted		TRO
Cassia moschata Kunth	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia nealiae H.S.Irwin & Barneby	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia nemophila Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia neurophylla W.Fitzg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia notabilis F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia oligoclada F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia oligophylla F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia phyllodinea R.Br.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia pilocarina Symon	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia pinetorum (Britton) J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Cassia pinoi (Britton & Rose) Lundell	Accepted		TRO
Cassia pleurocarpa F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia pruinosa F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia psilocarpa Welw.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia queenslandica C.T.White	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia regia Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia renigera Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia retusa Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia roxburghii DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia rubriflora Ducke	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia sieberiana DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia spruceana Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia stowardii S.Moore	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia stricta (E. Mey.) Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Cassia sturtii R.Br.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia swartzioides Ducke	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia thyrsoidea Brenan	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia tomentella (Benth.) Domin	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia tuerckheimii (Britton) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Cassia venusta F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Cassia yucatana (Britton & Rose) Lundell	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,396 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cassia. Of these 87 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 379 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cassia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,396 species names for the genus Cassia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	87	6.2%
◕	Synonym	1,170	83.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	139	10.0%

All names

The status of the 1,775 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cassia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	99	5.6%
◕	Synonym	1,529	86.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	147	8.3%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 32 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,396 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cassia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	72	1,018	0	0	1,090	78.1%
	Medium confidence	11	143	0	0	154	11.0%
	Low confidence	4	9	0	139	152	10.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cassia, are as follows: