Chamaecrista mimosoides

Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4(20): 27 (1899). 

Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Photo by Lang Dân Chánh Hiệu

The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa, Tropical Asia to N. Australia. It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Vietnamese names: 

Muồng trinh nữ, Trà tiên, Mắc cỡ đất

Family: 

Caesalpiniaceae

Uses: 

The entire plant is used for conditions including nephritis with edema, productive cough (cough with phlegm), jaundice, chronic constipation, malnutrition in children (*cam tích*), dysentery, night blindness, and lacquer-induced dermatitis.

Distribution: 

Found in Yên Bái, Tuyên Quang, Lạng Sơn, Quảng Ninh, the Central Highlands provinces, Ninh Thuận, and Đồng Nai. The plant grows naturally in open, uncultivated, and sun-exposed areas at altitudes of up to 2,000 meters.

Flowering and fruiting season: 

July–October; October–December