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Identification
Cassia truncata Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Brenan, J.P.M., Senna truncata (Brenan) Lock [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] Verified by Barham, J., Cassia longiracemosa Vatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] Cassia unrecorded unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia longiracemosa
  • Senna truncata
  • Cassia javanica
  • Cassia truncata
  • Cassia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SENNA truncata (Brenan) Lock [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 truncata (Brenan) Lock [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1988);
Cassia truncata Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1958). [type as above]
Information
Shrub or shrublet, up to 2 m tall; branches puberulous with spreading hairs. Leaves 10–25 cm long, eglandular; leaflets in (3–)4–10 pairs, obovate-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 0.8–3.5 x 0.6–2 cm, truncate or retuse at apex, pubescent. Racemes, including peduncles, up to 15–50 cm long. Petals yellow, obovate, 1.7–2.1 cm long. Stamens: 2 anthers large, 5 medium-sized, 3 small. Pods oblong, flattened, straight, 2–7 x 1.5–2.2 cm, transversely venose, with a crest along middle of each valve, pubescent. Seeds transversely arranged, compressed, oblong-ovate, 5–6 x 3.5–4 mm, reticulate, with a small areole on each face.
Range
N1; C1, 2
Altitude range
160–700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 2173; Glover & Gilliland 173; Gillett & al. 21888.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Notes
Jalelo, jalelo ari, jalelo gel (Som.). Used as a purgative.

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