Cassia abbreviata
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C. abbreviata
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Cassia abbreviata is a mostly tropical tree species in the genus Cassia, which is indigenous to Africa.
Native distribution
Cassia abbreviata is native to east, northeast, south, and west-central Africa; found in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa (in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga), Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[1]
Uses
Proguibourtinidins, a type of condensed tannins, can be found in C. abbreviata [2] and guibourtinidol, a flavan-3ol, can be found in its heartwood.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cassia abbreviata was originally described and published in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 271. 1871. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ The structure and synthesis of proguibourtinidins from Cassia abbreviata, Elfranco Malan, Ewald Swinny, Daneel Ferreira and Petrus Steynberg, 1996
- ↑ The novel Flavan-3-ol, (2R,3S )-guibourtinidol and its diastereomers. Reinier J.J. Nel, Makhosazana Mthembu, Johan Coetzee, Hendrik van Rensburg, Elfranco Malan and Daneel Ferreira, Phytochemistry 52 (1999) 1153-1158
External links
- Cassia abbreviata on www.ildis.org
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