Chamaecrista cathartica (Mart.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby var. cathartica

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Brazil

• State/Province

  Minas Gerais

• Locality

  6 km by road N of Gouvêia on road to Diamantina. Serra do Espinhaço.

• Elevation

  Alt. 1250 m. (4101 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -18.4, -43.7117

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  1000

• Georeferencing Method

  Online gazetteer. Coordinates for Gouvêia from CRIA, offset calculated as straight line (NNE, not N) on MANIS website.

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Chamaecrista cathartica (Mart.) H.S. Irwin &
Bameby var. catharthica
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6 km by road N of Gouv£ia on road to Diamantina;
elev. 1250 m; gallery forest along stream and
slopes above, one side being rocky (quartzite)
with sandy soil, the other side having an area
of grassy cerrado on red clay.
Glandular shrub 60 cm tall; petals yellow;
rocky slope.
William R. Anderson
jLO April 1973
Field work supported in part by funds from the National Science Foundation
and conducted with the collaboration of the Universidade de Brasilia and the
Instituto de Pesquisas e Experimentagáo Agricola do Norte.
New York Botanical Garden
Revision of Cassia, Sect. Absus
Cassia cathartica Mart. var. cathartica
H.S. Irwin & R.c. Barneby, 197h
Estado de Minas Gerais
Serra do Espinhago
Cassia cathartica Mart.
PLANTS OF THE PLANALTO DO BRASIL
Collected for The New York Botanical Garden by W. R. Anderson,
P. A. Fryxell, S. R. Hill, R. Reis das Santos, and R. Souza
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