Naturalised
Perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 1 . 5 m tall . Stems erect , branched . Leaves alternate , paripinnate with 4-10 pairs of leaflets ; leaflets 18-40(-55) x 7-15(-18) mm , increasing in size upwards , lanceolate , tip acute , glabrous or with a few hairs . Inflorescences in 1-2-flowered racemes present in the axils of upper leaves . Flowers yellow , bisexual , slightly zygomorphic , 5-merous ; sepals free , unequal , obovate , green ; petals 5-10 mm , free , obovate , glabrous , yellow , venation distinct ; stamens 10 ; filaments markedly unequal in length . Fruit pods , 15-11 x 0 . 5-0 . 7 cm , subterete with thicker yellowish edges and a small beak , straight or curved , setate , many-seeded . Seeds 4–4 . 5 x 3 . 5–4 . 5 mm , many , transversely arranged , grey-brown , ovate-circular , compressed , almost smooth . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Cassia sophera L.
Chamaefistula chinensis G.Don
Ditremexa sophera (L.) Britton & Rose
Octelisia aurea Raf.
Senna socotrana (Serrato) Lock
Senna sophera var. purpurea (Roxb. ex Lindl.) V.Singh
No data
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Pepper-Leaved Senna
Pepper-Leaved Senna
Sophera Senna
Algarrobilla
Not used traditionally.
*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 *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. *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437. *Patzelt, A. Pysek, P. Pergl, J. Van Kleunen, M. (2022). Alien flora of Oman: invasion status, taxonomic composition, habitats, origin, and pathways of introduction. Doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02711-4. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
