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Senna septemtrionalis

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Identification
Cassia septemtrionalis Viviani [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Senna septemtrionalis (Viviani) H.S.Irwin & R.C. Barneby [family FABACEAE ] Verified by C. D. Adams, Cassia laevigata Willd. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by W. Fawcett,
Related name
  • Cassia septemtrionalis
  • Cassia floribunda
  • Cassia laevigata
  • Cassia tomentosa
  • Cassia unrecorded
  • Senna septemtrionalis
  • Cassia not on sheet
Common name
  • ammσfra borσde = children’s plantain: alluding to the banana-shaped pods (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

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Entry for Senna septemtrionalis (Viv.) Irwin & Barneby [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Names
Cassia laevigata Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Senna septemtrionalis (Viv.) Irwin & Barneby [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Common names
GHANA: AKAN-TWI ammσfra borσde = children’s plantain: alluding to the banana-shaped pods (FRI)
Uses
(root, fruit) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (leaf) Medicines: fabrifuges (foliage) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (leaf, stem, fruit) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: land conservation Agri-horticulture: shade-trees
Description
A glabrous shrub to 3 m high of open or wooded grassland, river-banks, swamps, dry upland evergreen forest, waste and disturbed places, often spontaneous in abandoned cultivation sites, originally from Tropical America (? Mexico), now in the Region from S
References
References as Cassia siamea Lam.:1. Aubréville, 1950: 223, as Cassia laevigata Willd. 2. Birgel 5193, K. 3. Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 148, K. 4. Irvine, 1961: 284, as Cassia laevigata Willd. 5. Koritschoner 884, K. 6. Steyaert, 1952: 511, as Cassia laevigat
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

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