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Senna auriculata

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Name

Identification
Cassia auriculata L. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Henry Trimen, Senna auriculata (L.) Roxb. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cassia auriculata
  • Senna auriculata
Common name
  • tanner’s cassia (India, Sastri)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

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Entry for Senna auriculata (Linn.) Lock [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 auriculata Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Senna auriculata (Linn.) Lock [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Common names
English tanner’s cassia (India, Sastri).
Uses
(young leaf) Food: general (leaf) Medicines: generally healing (bark) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (bark, seed) Medicines: eye treatments (bark) Medicines: skin, mucosae (leaf, bark, seed-pod, seed) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (leaf, fruit) Medicines: vermifuges (seed) Medicines: liver, etc. (seed) Medicines: venereal diseases (leaf, bark) Medicines: fabrifuges (seed) Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout (bark) Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids (bark) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents Agri-horticulture: land conservation Agri-horticulture: composting, manuring
Products
english: Tanner’s cassiaenglish: Cassia, Tanner’s
Description
A shrub or small tree up to 7 m high with showy large yellow flowers, of woodland and drier wooded grassland, native of India, Ceylon and Burma, introduced here and there into many tropical countries and known to be present in Ghana and Nigeria, perhaps e
References
References as Cassia auriculata Linn.:1. Aubréville, 1950: 219. 2. Burkill, IH, 1935: 474. 3. Greenway 1941: sp. no. 64. 4. Oliver, 1960: 21. 5. Sastri, 1950: 96–97 with crop-husbandry and phytochemistry. 6. Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, 1962: 569, with many r
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

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