3536.020 Senna Mill.

CASSIA L. p.p.

Description of the genus

Unarmed trees, shrubs, subshrubs or herbs. Leaves paripinnate, often with spherical to clavate or cylindric glands on petiole and/or rhachis. Flowers in racemes; pedicels without bracteoles. Sepals 5. Petals 5, yellow. Stamens usually 10; filaments straight, shorter than or not over twice as long as the basifixed anthers. Pods (in ours) shorter than in Cassia, i.e. less than 30 cm, terete or flattened, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent, valves not twisting.

Worldwide: c.240 species, pantropical, most numerous in the New World

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
Dionychopus amasis (Tri-coloured tiger)
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
alata (L.) Roxb.
artemisioides (DC.) Randell
bicapsularis (L.) Roxb.Description, Image
corymbosa (Lam.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
didymobotrya (Fresen.) H.S. Irwin & BarnebyDescription, Image
floribunda (Cav.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
macranthera (Collad.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby var. micans (Nees) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
multijuga (Rich.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
pendula (Willd.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S. Irwin & BarnebyDescription, Image
septemtrionalis (Viv.) H.S. Irwin & BarnebyDescription, Image
siamea (Lam.) H.S. Irwin & BarnebyDescription, Image
singueana (Delile) LockDescription, Image
spectabilis (DC.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
surattensis (Burm. f.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Other sources of information about Senna:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Senna page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Senna
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Senna
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Senna
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Senna
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Senna

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Senna.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=695, retrieved 22 May 2013

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