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Senna italica

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Name

Identification
Senna italica Mill. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Cassia italica (Mill.) Lam. ex F.W.Andrews [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by J.E. Dandy, Cassia obovata Collad. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Fawcett, W.,
Related name
  • Senna italica
  • Cassia aschrek
  • Cassia italica
  • Cassia obovata
  • Senna unrecorded
Common name
  • (Hassaniya) valagit (Kesby) vellajit (AN) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • Senegal senna; Tripoli senna; Italian senna; Italian dog senna; Jamaican senna; Port Royal senna., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • badula, badulé, badulo (JB; K&A) ba (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • séné du Sénégal., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • (Senegal) abelejet (JB) afelgit (JB) afellazet (JB) agèrge (JB) fallajit (JB) feledjit (JB) fellajit (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for SENNA italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SENNA italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1768);
Cassia italica (Mill.) Spreng. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1800). [type as above]
Information
Erect to prostrate herb or small shrub;branches appressed puberulous in Flora area. Leaves 3–12 cm long, eglandular; stipules triangular to ovate-triangular, 3–9 mm long; leaflets (3–)4–6(–7) pairs, obovate-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 1–4.3 x 0.4–2(–2.7) cm, minutely appressed puberulous. Racemes 2–25 cm long; bracts broadly ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, 3–5 mm long, caducous. Sepals usually blackish or brownish except for hyaline margins. Petals yellowish-white to bright yellow, 0.8–2 cm long. Stamens arranged as in S. longiracemosa. Pods shortly oblong-falcate, flattened, 3–6 x 1.3–2 cm, transversely venose, with a ridge of raised crests along middle of each valve. Seeds similar to S. longiracemosa.
Notes
Jalelo, jalelo ari, jalelo gel (Som.). One source of senna, used as a purgative.

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