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Senna italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

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)

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

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; Italiansenna; 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 cmhigh from woody root-stock, of dry sandy localities from Mauritaniaacross Africa to Somalia to NW India; also in dry areas of southernAfrica.The plant is ubiquitously used as apurgative, 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 obovataCollad. 8. Gooding 34, K. 9. Gooding 197, K.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Senna italica Mill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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