Senna alata (L.) Roxb.

This species is native to SW Mexico to Tropical America; introduced and naturalized elsewhere. (Ref. POWO; 2022). There are 7 species of Senna found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


A soft-wooded , evergreen shrub ; up to 6 m high . Stems erect ; young branches puberulous with minute spreading hairs , eglandular . Leaves mostly 30–75 cm long ; petiole and rhachis eglandular ; stipules obliquely triangular , 0 . 6–1 . 3 cm long ; leaflets in 5–7 (–13) pairs , oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic , base rounded to somewhat heart-shaped , tip rounded . Inflorescences in erect axillary racemes . Flowers bright yellow , cup-shaped ; petals 5 , bright yellow , 1 . 7–2 . 2 cm ; stamens 10 ; filaments straight or nearly so . Fruit pod , 12–17(–19) cm , dehiscent , transversely septate , black when ripe , 50-60-seeded . Seeds 6–8 mm , flattened at right angles to the axis of the pod , deltoid-rhombic . (Ref . POWO , 2022) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Least Concern - Global Assessment

الوفرة


Not Common

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Cassia alata L.
Cassia arayatensis Náves ex Fern.-Vill.
Herpetica alata (L.) Raf.

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Candle Bush
Empress Candle Plant
Seven Golden Candlesticks
Candlestick Cassia
Candlestick Senna
Christmas Candle
Ringworm Cassia
Ringworm Bush
Emperor's Candlesticks
Candletree
Stick Senna
Yellowtop Weed

الأسماء المحلية


Not available

الاستخدامات


Not recorded yet

المراجع


*POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org

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