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Magnoliopsida
Senna Mill.
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Rights holder/Author | © International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
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Suffruticose perennial, up to 90 cm tall. Branches glabrous to subglabrous. Stipules lateral, c. 1.5 mm long, acute. Leaf paripinnate, c. 4.5-11.5 cm long. Leaflets 5-9 pairs, petiolule c. 1 mm long, lamina c. 1.2-4 cm long, c 3.5-10 mm wide, glabrous to sparingly hairy on both sides, lanceolate to ovate, tip acute. Inflorescence termical or axillary raceme, up to 15 cm long. Young flowers covered with c. 7-8 mm long cup-shaped bracts. Pedicel 3-4 cm long. Sepals 5, subequal, 10-13 mm long, c. 6-8 mm broad, spoon shaped or cup shaped, light yellow in colour. Petals 5, subequal, 14-17 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, obovate, shortly claw¬ed, deep yellow, veins becoming prominent after drying. Stamens 10, upper 3 reduced to staminodes, rest perfect, 2 lower largest. Ovary densely hairy, stipitate. Fruit c. 4-5 cm long, c. 16-22 mm broad, sparsely hairy, turning black at maturity, generally 4-10 seeded; stipe 2-3 mm.
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Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250063485 |
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Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
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"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."
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Occasionally grown as medicinal plants
Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves paripinnate, without glands on petiole or rhachis. Flowers in many-flowered racemes; bracteoles 2 at base of pedicels. Sepals 5. Petals 5, yellow (in ours). Stamens 10, filaments of 3 lower stamens with an S-bend near the base, many times longer than their small anthers which are dorsifixed. Pod long (30-60 cm in ours), cylindric or elongate.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
Source | http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=693 |