| Chamaecrista | |
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| Chamaecrista nictitans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Tribe: | Cassieae |
| Subtribe: | Cassiinae |
| Genus: | Chamaecrista (L.) Moench (1794) |
| Sections, series, and species[1] | |
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367 species; see text | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Chamaecrista is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Members of the genus are commonly known as sensitive pea.[3] Several species are capable of rapid plant movement. Unlike the related genera Cassia and Senna, members of Chamaecrista form root nodules.
Chamaecrista has 367 species, with a wide distribution – the Americas from Minnesota to northern Argentina, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, China, Korea, Japan, Malesia, New Guinea, and Australia.[1]
- ^ a b Chamaecrista Moench. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ Irwin HS, Barneby RC (1982). The American Cassiinae: A synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Casiinae in the New World, Part 2 (PDF). Bronx, N.Y.: New York Botanical Garden. OCLC 8553234. b1010840.
- ^ "Chamaecrista". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 March 2010.