Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
Distribution notes: Exotic
Senna alexandrina Mill.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Cassia acutifolia Delile |
synonym | Cassia alexandrina (Garsault)Thell. |
synonym | Cassia angustifolia M.Vahl |
synonym | Cassia senna L. |
synonym | Senna acutifolia (Delile)Batka |
synonym | Senna angustifolia (Vahl)Batka |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Herbs or shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets sparsely appressed pubescent. Leaves alternate, rachis (including petiole) 4-9 cm long, pubescent, eglandular; gland-like finger-shaped bodies present between the pairs of leaflets; leaflets 4-8 pairs, 1-4 x 0.3-0.9 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, appressed pubescent; stipules 1.5-2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute, appressed pubescent; stipules 1.5-2 mm long, linear-subulate or somewhat ovate. Racemes 10-22 cm long, axillary and terminal, longer than leaves; pedicels up to 10 mm long, thickened upwards, pubescent, deflexed in fruit. bracts ca 1 cm long, boat-shaped, acute, glabrous. Sepals 7-9 mm long, obtuse, glabrous. Petals yellow, 1-1.5 cm long. Fertile stamens 7; of which 2 anthers ca 1 cm long and falcate, one ca 4.5 mm long and straight, four 3-4 mm long and staright; staminodes 3. Ovary strigose; stigma punctiform. Pods 4-5.2 x 2 cm, oblong, straight or upwardly slightly falcate, flat, shallowly elevated over the seeds, transversely septate, sparsely appressed pubescent, reticulately veined, dehiscent; seeds 5-8, each 5-6 x 3 mm, obovate-oblong, narrowed at hilum end, testa reticulately worted or rugose; areole ca 2.5 mm long, more towards hilum end, on both faces.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Occasionally grown as medicinal plants
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Native of Tropical Africa
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki, Malappuram
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Cassia senna L., Sp. Pl. 377. 1753, excl. var.
- Cassia angustifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 1: 20. 1790; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 264. 1878.
- Senna alexandrina Mill., Gard. Dict. (ed. 8). 1. 1768; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 104. 2001.
- Cassia medica Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 271. 1775, nom. nud. non Vell. 1825.
Information Listing > References
- Cassia senna L., Sp. Pl. 377. 1753, excl. var.
- Cassia angustifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 1: 20. 1790; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 264. 1878.
- Senna alexandrina Mill., Gard. Dict. (ed. 8). 1. 1768; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 104. 2001.
- Cassia medica Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 271. 1775, nom. nud. non Vell. 1825.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Senna |
Species | Senna alexandrina Mill. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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