Perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 60 cm tall . Stems erect to ascending , branched , pale grey-brown , pubescent , weakly longitudinally ridged . Leaves paripinnate with 2-6 pairs of leaflets ; leaflets (5-)8-22(-25) x 5-18 mm , oblong-lanceolate or obovate , apex rounded to emarginated , mucronate , appressed pubescent ; stipules 4-5 mm , ovate to triangular . Inflorescences in terminal and axillary racemes . Flowers yellow , bisexual ; sepals 5 , elliptic to obovate , glabrous , 4-6 mm ; petals orange to yellow , obovate , slightly unequal , 8-15 mm ; stamens 4 large , 4 medium and 3 small . Fruit pod , 25-50 x 10-18 mm , flattened , oblong , curved , sparsely pubescent , with a longitudinal ridge of crests along the middle of pod , tardily dehiscent , 5-8-seeded . Seeds 6–7 × 2–3 mm , brown , obovate , flattened , with a narrowly elliptic areole . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Cassia aschrek Forssk.
Cassia italica (Mill.) Spreng.
Cassia obovata Collad.
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Eland's Pea
Port Royal Senna
Italian Senna
Italian Cassia
Senegal Senna
Wild Senna
Eland's Senna
Jamaica Senna
Aleppo Senna
Dog Senna
Tripoli Senna
In the central desert, the leaves pounded, squeezed and dripped over painful ear. The yellow flowers are edible. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden). Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "The name, kit iz k-ahelob, which is often given to Cassia italica, means 'sustenance for those herding the immature livestock'. This is in reference to the seeds of the fruit which in this Cassia grow to quite a size, and provided a pleasant nibble for the boys and girls following the grazing herds or takng them to water. Eating too greedily of them, though, could cause stomach cramps, as they have quite a laxative effect taken in quantity. Different parts of the whlole plant can be used as a laxative, the leaves and roots as well as the fruit. C. italica, as well as C. obtusifolia, is also often called [J, DA: senemukki], a term also used in early classical arabic texts,
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*POWO (2022). ""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 *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.
