Chamaecrista

Chamaecrista
	Chamaecrista nictitans
Scientific classification
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
	367 species; see text
Synonyms
	Cassia Vogel ex Benth. (1870); Cassia (DC. ex Collad.) Symon (1966); Cassia sect. Lasiorhegma Vogel (1837); Cassia subgen. Lasiorhegma Vogel ex Benth. (1870); Cassia subgen. Lasiorhegma sensu Irwin & Bameby (1977); Cassia subgen. Absus (DC.) Symon (1966); Chamaecrista sensu Greene (1897); Chamaecrista sensu Britton (1930); Chamaecrista sensu Britton & Killip (1936); Chamaecrista sensu Pittier (1945); Chamaecrista sensu ampliat. Irwin & Barneby (1976); Chamaecrista sensu ampliat. Irwin & Barneby (1981); Dialanthera Raf. (1838); Disterepta Raf. (1838); Grimaldia Schrank (1805); Hepteireca Raf. (1838); Nictitella Raf. (1838); Ophiocaulon Raf. (1838); Sooja Siebold (1830), nom. nud.; Xamacrista Raf. (1838);

Chamaecrista is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Members of the genus are commonly known as sensitive pea. 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.

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