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*''Cassia pumila'' Lamk.

*Procumbent or erect woody herb or shrub up to 50 cm tall with pubescent branches. *Leaves pinnately compound with 10-25 pairs of leaflets, sensitive to the touch; petiole 3-7 mm long, with a long stalked gland between the lowest pair of leaflets; rachis grooved alongside, 2-5 cm long; leaflets opposite, sessile, sublinear, 7-12 mm × 2-3 mm, glabrous or with few hairs on the midrib, apex rounded with a long mucro. *Inflorescence a short, supra-axillary raceme bearing 1-3 flowers; pedicel pubescent, 4-6 mm long; sepals .*Sepals lanceolate, 5-6 mm long; petals bright yellow, unequal, oblong, 2-3 mm long with a short claw; stamens 5, subequal; ovary hairy. *Pod flat, strap-shaped, 2-5 cm × 0.5 cm, dehiscent, 10-15-seeded. *Seed flat, subrhomboidal, about 3 mm long, brown, smooth.  ''C. pumila'' is often found on sandy soils near the coast, along roadsides, in dry deciduous forest, but also as a weed in rice fields, up to 300 m altitude in monsoon regions. Transplanting nursery-sown plants is preferable to direct sowing. Weeding several times after planting is required. Plants cover the soil after about 10 weeks and start flowering 6 weeks later. They can be dug in when starting to die off, after about 1 year.

*M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen