- Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus: Senna Mill.
Senna alexandrina Mill.
- Genus: Senna Mill.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Sahara & Sahel to Indian Subcontinent.
[ILDIS]
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Conservation
- Not Threatened
- Ecology
- Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
- Habit
- Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
- Vernacular
- Afrikanskaya Senna, Alexandrian Senna, Bhuikhakhasa, Bombay Senna, Hindisana, Indian Senna, Kassiya Ostrolistnaya, Sana, Sen, Sen De Espana, Sene, Sene Grandes Feuilles, Senna, Senna-i-Makki, Tinnevelly Senna, True Senna
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Naturalizada y adventicia en Colombia; Alt. 100 m.; Amazonia.
- Habit
- Hierba, subarbusto
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Shrub, rarely procumbent, 0.2–3 m high; young branches with short appressed or spreading hairs
- Leaves
- Leaves (3–)5–15(–25) cm long, eglandular; stipules subulate, linear or narrowly triangular, 3–5(–9) mm long; leaflets (3–)4–8(–13) pairs, lanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–5(–6) x 0.4–1(–1.5) cm, appressed puberulous or pubescent
- Inflorescences
- Racemes 5–30 cm long; bracts elliptic to obovate, obtuse to shortly acuminate, 5–11 mm long
- Calyx
- Sepals greenish or hyaline
- Corolla
- Petals yellow or orange-yellow, 0.7–1.7 cm long
- Stamens
- Stamens 10: 2 anthers large, 5 medium-sized, 3 small
- Fruits
- Pods shortly oblong, slightly curved to almost straight, flattened, (3–)4–7 x 1.6–2.6 cm, dehiscent, transversely septate within
- Seeds
- Seeds transversely arranged, compressed, oblong or oblong-ovate, apiculate near hilum, often emarginate at opposite end, 5–7 x 3.5–4 mm, reticulate or rugose, with a small areole on each face.
- Vernacular
- Jalelo, jalelo gel (Somali).
[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Habit
- Shrub 0.3–3 m. high.
- Stem
- Young stems with appressed puberulence or short spreading pubescence, eglandular.
- Leaves
- Leaves (3–)5–15 cm. long; petiole and rhachis eglandular. Stipules subulate, linear or narrowly triangular, 3–5 mm. long, up to 1 mm. wide. Leaflets in (3–)4–8(–12) pairs, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 1.5–5.2(–6) cm. long, 0.4–0.9(–1.5) cm. wide, narrowly acute to rounded at apex, with or without a slender mucro up to 1 mm. long, appressed-puberulous or pubescent.
- Inflorescences
- Racemes (including peduncle) 5–30 cm. long.
- Bracts
- Bracts subtending flower-buds 0.5–1.1 cm. long, 0.35–0.5 cm. wide.
- Corolla
- Petals yellow or orange-yellow, 0.7–1.7 cm. long, 0.7–0.9 cm. wide.
- Stamens
- Stamens 10; filaments straight or nearly so; 2 anthers large, 5 medium, 3 small.
- Fruits
- Pods (3–)4–7 cm. long, 1.6–2.6 cm. wide, shortly oblong, flattened, slightly and upwardly falcate or sometimes almost straight, dehiscent, transversely septate, not winged or crested, papery.
- Seeds
- Seeds ± compressed, in same plane as pod, oblong, apiculate near hilum, 6–7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick, reticulate or rugose, with a small areole 1–2 × 0.5–0.7 mm. on each face.
[FWTA]
Caesalpiniaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958
- Habit
- An undershrub with pale more or less zigzag branchlets
- Inflorescences
- Erect racemes of yellow flowers
- Vernacular
- Alexandrian Senna.
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Native to:
Algeria, Central African Repu, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Yemen
Introduced into:
Benin, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Gulf States, Haiti, Iraq, Leeward Is., Mexico Southwest, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Uzbekistan
Senna alexandrina Mill. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 18, 2002 | Essou J. P. [1570], Benin | K000117633 | ||
Sep 18, 2002 | Essou, J.P. [1570], Benin | K000117632 | ||
Kotschy [315], Ethiopia | K000232472 | |||
Kotschy [40], Sudan | K000232473 | |||
Rottler, J.P. [s.n.] | Cassia senna | K000789314 |
First published in Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 1 (1768)
Accepted by
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