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Senna italica Mill. [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 italica (Mill.) Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Cassia obovata Collad. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Senna italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Common names
English Senegal senna; Tripoli senna; Italian senna; Italian dog senna; Jamaican senna; Port Royal senna. French séné du Sénégal. MAURITANIA: ARABIC (Hassaniya) valagit (Kesby) vellajit (AN) SENEGAL: ARABIC (Senegal) abelejet (JB) afelgit (JB) afellazet (JB) agèrge (JB) fallajit (JB) feledjit (JB) fellajit (JB) FULA-PULAAR (Senegal) badula, badulé, badulo (JB; K&A) ba
Uses
(young seed) Food: general (leaf, root) Medicines: generally healing (leaf, root, seed-pod) Medicines: stomach troubles (leaf, seed-pod, seed) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (leaf, seed-pod) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (leaf, seed-pod) Medicines: vermifuges (leaf) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (leaf, seed-pod) Medicines: venereal diseases (leaf, seed-pod) Medicines: fabrifuges (leaf) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (leaf) Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (seed) Products: tobacco, snuff
Products
portuguese: Sénéfrench: Séné du Sénégalenglish: Senna, Italianenglish: Senna, Jamaicanenglish: Senna, Senegalenglish: Italian sennaenglish: Tripoli sennaenglish: Italian dog sennaenglish: Senna, Italian dogenglish: Senna, Tripolienglish: Senegal sennaenglish: Jamaican sennaenglish: Senna, Port Royalenglish: Port Royal senna
Description
A perennial herb, undershrub, 15–60 cm high from woody root-stock, of dry sandy localities from Mauritania across Africa to Somalia to NW India; also in dry areas of southern Africa.The plant is ubiquitously used as a purgative, both leaves and the seed-p
References
References:1. Adam, 1966,a. 2. Adewunmi & Sofowora, 1980. 3. Aubréville, 1950, 223, as Cassia obovata. 4. Baumer, 1975: 90. 5. Boury, 1962: 15. 6. Brenan, 1958: 239–42. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 184, as Cassia obovata Collad. 8. Gooding 34, K. 9. Gooding 197, K.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Senna italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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