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Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Senna surattensis (Burm. f.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay - Kembang seberang], Scrambled egg bush, Twin flowered cassia, Golden senna, Singapore shower, Sunshine tree, Sulphur-flowered senna. Native to Indian subcontinent, Indonesia and Malesia. Planted as ornamental plant in home garden and urban landscaping.Synonym(s):
Cassia glauca Lam. [
Senna surattensis subsp.
sulfurea]
Cassia suffruticosa J. Koenig ex Roth [
Senna surattensis subsp.
surattensis]
Cassia sulfurea DC. ex Collad. [
Senna surattensis subsp.
sulfurea]
Cassia surattensis Burm. f. [
Senna surattensis subsp.
surattensis]
Cassia surattensis var.
suffruticosa (J. Koenig ex Roth) Chatterjee [
Senna surattensis subsp.
surattensis]
Senna sulfurea (DC. ex Collad.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby [
Senna surattensis subsp.
sulfurea]Ref and suggested reading:
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?409534www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Glaucous Cassia.html
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?9311www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Cassia_biflora.html
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Camaragibe, Pernambuco, Brazil
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The colorful pods of a species found in the Andes foothills, central and southern Chile.
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Also known as the Kassod Tree, and as Mjohoro here in Tanzania. The boiled leaves are edible, and it is planted as fodder and for medicinal applications. Native to southeast Asia.
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeDistribution: Native of tropical America, and naturalised in tropics. Photographed at Nellore on a tank bund.1-2m tall undershrub, branches hirsute, Leaves pinnate, 12-20cm long, leaflets 4-6pairs, ovate oblong, base obtuse, apex acute, densly appressed-hirsute. Flowers 1cm across, yellow, in axillary pairs. Pods 6-10cm long, densly villous, subterete, 3-5mm wide. The leaf paste along with lime and egg yoke is applied to fix fractured bones for cattle and also for humans in villages.Reference: Flora presidency of Madras by Gamble.
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Senna sp. (possibly a form of Senna artemisioides) cultivated at Paluma in Queensland. Photographed on 23 September 1972.Digitised from a slide. The original slide, which is of higher quality, is held.
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La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
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Senna cana (Nees & Mart.) H.S.Irwin & BarnebyFABACEAELocal: Chapada dos Veadeiros, Alto Paraso, Gois, Brasil.Ref.: Queiroz, L.P. Leguminosas da Caatinga. UEFS, 2009.
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Las Ollas Abajo, Panama, Panama
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeCommon in dry stony hills. Limited to India. Photographed at Velugonda hills of Eastren ghats.1-2.5mts tall handsome herbs. leaves 8-20cm long pinnate, leaflets 10-13 pairs, leaflet1.6-2.5x 1-1.2cm, elliptic, oblong -obovate, base obtuse, mucronate, glaucous below, Flowers 1-1.5cm across, golden yellow, in 6-12cm long corymbose racemes. Stamens 10(2+4+4) pods compressed, beaked, black shining 10-20 seeded.Bark and leaves are used to relieve fever and headache.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS.
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, South Australia, Australia
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Queensland, Australia
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Emerald, Queensland, Australia
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Found in the western parts of the Amazon Basin, and used in indigenous medicine for headaches and earaches. Photo from the Calanoa Reserve, Colombian Amazon.
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Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona. April 3, 2010. This is a Mexican species.
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False Sicklepod (Senna multijuga) cultivated on the James Cook University Campus, Stuart, near Townsville, Queensland. Photographed on 5 April 1973.Native to the Americas.Digitised from a slide.
www.inaturalist.org/observations/55540554
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Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay: Gelenggang kecil], American sicklepod, Coffee-weed, Java-bean, Sicklepod, Sicklepod senna, Foetid cassia, Wild Senna. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere widely naturalized pantropically. Widely used in native medicine for many ailments. Stem herbaceous to woody up to 150 cm; leaves alternate, pinnate and leaflets often ending in three pairs, 2.5 - 5 cm long and 1 - 2.5 cm wide; leaf-stalk with tiny glands and grooved on the upper side. Flowers in pairs from leaf-axils, bright yellow; calyx with a short tube; petals 5, stamens 10, the upper shorter ones not fully developed, the lower ones with thick stalks; style long curved. Pod sickle-shaped. Seed rectangular with the hilum at one end.Synonym(s):
Cassia contorta Vogel
Cassia humilis Collad.
Cassia humilis M. Martens & Galeotti
Cassia obtusifolia L.
Cassia sunsub Forssk.
Cassia tala Desv.
Cassia tora sensu auct. [Misapplied]
Cassia tora var.
b Wight & Arn.
Cassia tora var.
humilis (Collad.) Collad.
Cassia tora var.
humilis Pers.
Cassia tora var.
obtusifolia (L.) Haines
Cassia toroides Roxb.
Cassia toroides Raf.
Chamaefistula contorta G. Don
Diallobus falcatus Raf.
Diallobus tora (L.) Raf.
Diallobus tora (L.) Jackson
Diallobus uniflorus Raf.
Emelista tora (L.) Britton & Rose ex Britton & P. Wilson
Senna toroides Roxb.Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-1083www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?100044pkukmweb.ukm.my/~rsenr3/rsenr1/P472-476.pdfexplorepharma.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/cassia-toracoffee-...Cassia tora: a neglected weed with immense nutritional and medicinal values.
www.ecosensorium.org/2010/08/cassia-tora-neglected-weed-w...
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Senna rugosa (G.Don) H.S.Irwin & BarnebyFABACEAELocal: Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, Alto Paraso, Gois, Brasil. Ref.: Salles, A.E.H. Jardim Botnico de Braslia. 2007.
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